Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poet Hoffenstein, still in his early 30's, went from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., to Manhattan in 1922, was dramatic critic on the Sun, columnist on the Herald-Tribune, press agent for Producer Al Woods. Now poetry supports him. Mild-miened, reg-ular-featured, carapace-bespectacled, Poet Hoffenstein thinks nothing ever happens to him, thinks his experience is common, that others will not admit it. Other books: Life Sings a Song, Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing...
Apron Strings. Pansy Pomeroy, lady columnist, died leaving her son a multitude of letters telling him how to conduct his life. The effect of this legacy becomes apparent when he takes a bride. So completely impersonal is he toward her that it begins to seem as if he had never been apprised of a husband's obligations. There is a quarrel, but several shots of Scotch suffice to break the mother-fixation and the play ends with enlightenment in the offing. There is a great deal to be said for the humorous treatment of modern psychology. But here the humor...
Some day when he has lots of time maybe next summer this valiant columnist is going to begin a Russian revival. He has an unbounded faith in the literary excellence of their novels, and a sneaking supposition that they are not too widely read in this country. Although it is neither new nor meant for light skimming, as a last choice and without further remarks he presents. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky...