Word: clare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long, liverish, open letter to Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Chicago's James T. Farrell, one of the most earnest authors and worst writers in the U.S., took issue with Canadian censorship. The reason: Ottawa had placed a ban on importation of his new novel, Bernard Clare, a lacklustre portrait of the artist as a young...
...highly unlikely that Mr. King, who is fond of reading the Bible, had read Bernard Clare; and he has nothing to do with censorship. The book had been banned by David Sim, an able official of the Customs and Excise department who detests the censorship phase...
...which still bars natives of 13 countries and colonies* from citizenship, got ready last week to open the door to immigrants from India. Passed by the House and approved in Senate committee was a bill-sponsored by Representatives Clare Boothe Luce and Emanuel Celler, and Senators Joe Ball and Arthur Capper -permitting a maximum of 100 Indians to enter the country each year as prospective citizens...
...These people passing, these svelte and stylish women, they didn't even notice him. Little did they think that here went Bernard Clare, who was in love with Eva Stone, and who someday would be a writer, writing of New York, of lovely women gay on its gay Saturday-afternoon autumn streets, gay under the grey skies of New York...
Like everything else Farrell has written, Bernard Clare is sure to be provoking. It will fire the enthusiasts who believe that Farrell's dogged, disagreeable, belligerent honesty sets him far above most contemporary writers; it will confirm his detractors in their view that no amount of sincerity can compensate for so much bad writing...