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...accents of others. Hortense Calisher is in the rare situation of having both birds in the cage at once: her first volume of short stories, In the Absence of Angels, gives the impression of being an anthology of compositions by disciples of Marcel Proust, George Orwell and Elizabeth Bowen-and one seriously talented writer named Hortense Calisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Bird Too Many | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...David Bowen '51, founder of the Harvard Theatre Group, returned yesterday from a three-month tour of England and Israel to appear in the production of "An Enemy of the People." HTG president Harold Stone '53 announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HTG Founder Returns | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Although he had not expected to return from his trip in time to take part in the Thursday night opening. Bowen changed his plans and arrived in New York Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HTG Founder Returns | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Wrung Dry. "Imitation after imitation of Miss Bowen's magnificent novel went into exercise books - stories of 16th Century Italy or 12th Century England marked with enormous brutality and a despairing romanticism. It was as if I had been supplied once and for all with a subject." At 14, a story had made Graham feel what most children learn much later, if at all. "Goodness has only once found a perfect incarnation in a human body and never will again, but evil can always find a home there. Human nature is not black and white, but black and grey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shocker | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...confused with other literary Greens: British Novelists Henry Green and F. L. Green. *No kin to Author Elizabeth Bowen, good friend and brilliant colleague of Graham Greene's. Marjorie Bowen's real name: Margaret Gabrielle Long. * The volume is now a rare collector's item, and Graham Greene wishes it were even rarer. Sample: . . . Your eyes can bring me no such lovely joy As sudden sparks of beauty in a verse . . . And yet, your hair dusks with its strands the page, Until I'd leave the book to kiss your hair. Yet even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shocker | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

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