Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LITTERARY symbols are made not only by authors. but by readers-whenever they feel the need to sum up a phase of their own lives and times. Readers seized on Goethe's Werther and Byron's Childe Harold as handy symbols of romanticism, on Flaubert's Madame...
Late one afternoon last week, at the end of a long ministerial meeting in the mirrored Salon des Ambassadeurs at the Elysee Palace, grave, bespectacled Mollet rose from his place beside French President Rene Coty and walked briskly out through the glass doors to face a crowd of newsmen in...
Each of the skits considers an aspect of the French (and occasionally of the British) national character with the sort of inane intensity a small boy devotes to a wart. Items: French Suspiciousness, British Weather. The Cult of the Liver among Middle-Aged Frenchmen, The Function of the Horse in...
One final word: the publishers have seen fit to place on the front of the dust jacket part of Graves' own description of his book as follows: "A novel filled with sex, drink, dope, horse racing, incest, suicides, murders, scandalous legal proceedings, cross examinations, inquests and a good public hanging...
Then occurred the kind of event which her second husband, Critic Edmund Wilson, in The Wound and the Bow considered decisive to the character of a writer-the wound for which a life of writing must compensate. In the flu epidemic of 1918 Mary McCarthy's parents died, and...