Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roots of the nation's past, but when they came to write about it, rarely got off the ground. Most ambitious of the professional jobs was Allan Kevins' Ordeal of the Union, winner of the $10,000 Scribner Prize in American History, which devoted 1,183 detail-packed pages to the brief but politically stormy period 1848-56. Five more volumes are to come. Bernard De Voto's Across the Wide Missouri covered another brief period, 1833-38, dealt lovingly, almost lyrically, with the American fur trade, the Rocky Mountain trappers and their breath-taking country. Mason...
Many critical books followed the trails of current literary fashions. F. O. Matthiessen's The James Family and The Notebooks of Henry James offered rich detail on a man who in the past three years has increasingly been regarded as America's greatest novelist. Franz Kafka was brought to life in Max Brod's biography and scalped in Paul Goodman's Franz Kafka: His Prayer. By comparison, Edmund Blunden's solid Shelley: A Life Story seemed a challenge to current taste...
This reviewer is sick to death of analyzing in detail every poor, juvenile story, play, or poem that is printed on each side of the Common every month. Suffice to say that Signature's four drama articles are competently written and quite interesting. Their major fault is that they form so important a part of an issue that has an obligation to tackle its chosen problem with greater scrutiny and directness. The two plays lack, any sort of individualism or vigor and, contrary to Signature's editorial, show no trends at all. One is an uninspired adaptation of a part...
Rebecca also possessed two other provocative talents-an ability to put her mental finger on the key detail of a complicated situation or character, and a sharp tongue. She is still in brisk command of both assets. In Manhattan last summer, she was introduced to arch John Erskine, author of The Private Life of Helen of Troy, The Human Life of Jesus and some 40 other books. Said Erskine: "I've been reading your clever articles and I wonder if they're sincere." Snapped Miss West: "I've been reading yours, and I never wonder about either...
...Lambs, The Rake's Progress) with Cartoonist David Low. She managed to get abroad a good deal, and a shimmering list of continental hosts and hostesses were always eager to entertain her. The posh social life of Paris, the spas and resorts, which Miss West described in loving detail in The Thinking Reed, was first-hand reporting. When in 1937 the British Council sent Miss West to Yugoslavia and she recorded her experience in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, she became indisputably the world's No. 1 woman writer...