Word: enoch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Enoch Arnold Bennett, British journalist: "In criticism of U. S. book reviews I referred thus to U. S. Journalists George Jean Nathan and Henry Louis Mencken: 'These illustrious warriors are very readable. They are also violent, impudent, farcical, grotesque and intellectually unscrupulous. It is impossible that writers who "go on" with the pen as they do could reliably distinguish a good book or good play from a bad one. . . . I do not wish them death. I read them with gusto. They make me laugh...
...Author. Enoch Arnold Bennett has led an industrious, unspectacular life since being born 59 years ago among the potteries of Staffordshire. Everything interests him, especially humble, "uninteresting" people. His published books and plays, persistently captivating, now number over two score. He has a French wife, steam yacht...
...Brace ($2.50). The author of Gold and The World's Illusion towers on the European scene as a very great novelist. His concern is with the spiritual crises of deep, positive natures under the stresses and distortions of post-War civilization in Germany. Here his framework is the Enoch Arden dilemma: a War prisoner home from Siberia after six years, finds his wife married to a charitable cause. She has been transformed from a warm, passive complement to his life into an active self-sufficient woman. The pangs of their readjustment strike deeply into the lives of two women...
...John's College (Annapolis, Md.). There he will exchange, for the pollen of salary and security, the honey of vision and experience, lecturing in advanced Philosophy courses (including six addresses on Education for Democracy), generally promoting the academic and social life of the institution, specifically assisting President Enoch B. Garey, with "important changes" in pedagogical policies, doubtless some of the very changes that precipitated Dr. Meikle John's fracas with the conservative Amherst trustees two years ago. These included: riddance of mediocre professors; intellectual freedom; amateur athletic coaches...
...Author. Enoch Arnold Bennett grew up among the potteries of Staffordshire. He has a most amiable disposition, a French wife, a steam yacht...