Word: creator
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auden's poetic talent is still prolific, but its direction is as confused as ever. The first is a play, the prose passages of which are written by Mr. Isherwood, a young British author who has won some fame as translator of Bandelaire's journals and as the creator of one of the nastiest characters in contemporary fiction. Despite the high rhetoric of the verse, and the crisp, business-like tone of the prose, the play is essentially unsuccessful, at least in the study. Whether it may act well is another question, which one may be disposed to doubt...
...great British writers whose reputation has not bloomed abroad as well as at home is William Morris, Pre-Raphaelite, craftsman, for whom the Morris chair was named, child prodigy (he read the Waverly novels at the age of 4), interior decorator, architect, wealthy Socialist, amazingly prolific poet and creator of stained glass windows. Morris was the leading figure among British Socialists when George Bernard Shaw, 22 years younger, first met him. Shaw, author of five unpublished novels, principally known as a speaker in seething, rapidly-shifting London radical circles, was editing a small magazine at that time. To fill...
During the last four years a wealthy, 56-year-old grandmother, living in the peaceful seclusion of her New Mexican ranch, has published three books that belong with the most scandalous of contemporary autobiographies. Creator of these solemnly indiscreet records is Mabel Dodge Luhan, patroness of art, friend of D. H. Lawrence and of other literary great, wife of a Taos Indian whose folkways she recounted in Winter in Taos. The scandalous books are the successive volumes of her Intimate Memories. This is a long manuscript, about which lurid literary legends are steadily accumulating. It now reposes in the safe...
...days later, undeterred by the fact that a native laborer stabbed his foreman in the back. Professor Hassan opened four other tombs, including that of Prince Khnumba-ef, Chephren's son, whose name means "His soul is the Creator"; and of Kishnofer, a provincial governor whose burial place bore the inscription, "First under the King...
...portrait of two long-necked sisters, in the manner of David, by Sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, famed as the creator of the galloping chariot on top of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate...