Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Education: B.A. 1925, Uppsala University (literature, French, practical philosophy, economics). His doctorate thesis-Distribution of Economic Market Trends-at Stockholm University (1933) was abstruse, brilliant, and prefaced with a quote from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: " 'That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the Duchess replied in a pleased tone." Diligently learned English. French and German, and displayed his talents last week in a trilingual press conference. At college, friends tagged him "the perfect civil servant...
...begins Strange Laughter, a French novel which devotes itself, with a kind of savage pity, to the mind of the mad. Novelist Molaine (in real life Major Léopold Faure, a professional soldier in the French army) unrolls his story in the disorderly sometimes brilliant voices of the patients themselves...
...confession of war guilt on behalf of Germany's Christians in 1945, but he has attacked the Allied trials of German war criminals as "unjustified." He has denounced Communism, but cautiously refuses to make common cause with the Western democracies in their fight against it. His logic is brilliant, but he hates organized philosophy "like sin." These seeming paradoxes, like Dibelius, are unmistakably German and Lutheran...
...book season has produced no brilliant major novels, but it has already introduced some highly promising first novelists, e.g., 27-year-old George Lanning, author of The Happy Rural Seat, and 31-year-old Jefferson Young, who wrote A Good Man (see Recent & Readable). Now comes a 27-year-old Polish girl named llona Karmel with a quietly gripping story called Stephania...
...Happy Rural Seat, by George Lanning. Brilliant first novel on the subject of the unlived life, with fresh variations on the Henry James theme (TIME, March...