Word: biennium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beside that ardently swelling literary bosom, the lean, taut, fidgety figure of the author of Main Street, Babbitt and Arrowsmith might seem a little out of place and even a little out of date. For a decade Lewis had favored U.S. readers with a book almost every biennium, but his last important work had been done in the beginning of the '30s. If Cass Timberlane now acquired new importance, that was chiefly due to the fact that the hundreds of thousands of men & women who would read his new novel had, while he was writing it, made...
...twelve essays in The Wind is Rising, covering the twelve grimmest months in the bloody biennium from August 1939 to August 1941, chart the wavering course of Tomlinson's adjustment to the fact that this war is different. He writes: "I still think war an obscene outrage on the intelligence. I should not be in the least upset by what Communists call the downfall of British Imperialism. I see no reason to alter a line of what I wrote of war and peace in Mars His Idiot. . . . But this challenge by the Nazis is ultimate. . . . I know that some...