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Released on the promise that he would return "after keeping an extremely important appointment" in the afternoon, Richard Llewelyn Brill '42, of New York and Adams House, had the nurses at Stillman worried when he failed to reappear yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Steals Out of Stillman to Stymie Scribbler | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

Among the most outstanding and faithful of Freud's U. S. pupils: Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, who translated Freud's works for U. S. readers; Dr. Fritz Wittels, Freud's biographer; Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, Dr. Herman Nunberg, all of Manhattan; Dr. Isador Henry Coriat of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Intellectual Provocateur | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Lately Satevepost readers have been following his new serial, Wickford Point. It traces some 30 years in the history of the scatterbrained, snobbish, tumbledown New England Brills, from Great-Aunt Sarah, who had known the Transcendentalists, to sophisticated daughter Bella, beautiful, jaded, unhappy, to whom men were drawn as sightseers were drawn to the shrine of stuffed-shirt Poet John Brill, "the Wickford Sage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deflowering of New England | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...original Wickford Point was twice as long and nearly twice as biting. This week the book appeared in its uncut form, promising to be another best-seller of the stature of The Late George Apley. Comparison of the two versions showed that the Post's seven installments accented Brill foibles, heightened the picturesqueness of the story, diluted its satire, toned down the dialogue ("so damn screwy" to "so queer"), cut out Narrator Calder's cynical reflections on love ("all lovers are consummate bores"), on writing popular fiction for the big magazines ("a somewhat ghastly parody on life"), blotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deflowering of New England | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...BASIC WRITINGS OF SIGMUND FREUD -Edited by Dr. A. A. Brill-Modern Library...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Year | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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