Word: edith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gossip in Good Taste. The ablest U.S. disciple of Henry James and Edith Wharton in many a year is a 34-year-old Manhattan lawyer named Louis Auchincloss. His special world is inhabited by New York's oldest and richest families. He writes as an insider, and his tools are accuracy and compassion. But he takes his rich so much for granted that he never makes them a fraction as interesting as a wide-eyed outsider could, e.g., F. Scott Fitzgerald or John O'Hara...
Brooks has kinder words for most of these writers than he has for Edith Wharton and her skilled and snobbish novels about rich New Yorkers. "She was always ready with cold stares," complains Brooks, "for those who encroached in any way on the small caste-prerogatives that she valued so much . . ." He turns with a warmer eye to the lumbering Hoosier, Theodore Dreiser, with his industrial America, his farm girls looking for jobs and fun in the big city, his drummers spreading the gospel of the fast buck. For all his muddled clumsiness, Dreiser was the spiritual father of almost...
...lecture, given under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund, was delivered last year by Edith and Sir Osbert Sitwell. Robert Frost also gave it a few years...
...Washington, a few with long memories recognized Edith Dahl, who, fourteen years ago, had led a successful tabloid campaign (with pleas and a picture to General Franco) for the release of her aviator husband Harold E. ("Whitey") Dahl from a Spanish prison. She was now supporting fan-dangling Sally Rand as a comic violinist in a northeast Washington nightclub. What was Whitey doing? Edith had no idea...
This offer follows a proposal, made last night at City Hall installation ceremonial by teenage Councillor Edith Battle, that relations between University students and town youths be improved...