Word: essayistic
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...audacious lady was Francoise Parturier, 51, novelist, essayist, fervent feminist and front-page columnist for Le Figaro. When she applied last October, few of the 35 members took her seriously (the Academy has 40 places, but five members have died since last March). Still Maurice Genevoix, the Academy's secretary, declared: "Nothing forbids a woman to become a member. Only once before in the Academy's history, in 1893, did a woman try to be a candidate. And we violated our statutes by refusing...
...last week's election, Francoise predicted that she would get no votes in her competition with three other candidates. She was wrong. Essayist-Art Critic Roger Caillois, 57, won the secret vote on the second ballot with 16 votes, but Parturier salvaged a minor moral victory. She received one vote...
Gardner's reputation as a liberal, however, is based largely on books and writings which are not only eloquent, but perhaps a bit too logically precise for the likings of Harvard. "He's an essayist rather than a writer, an executive more than a leader, and has the air of being prestigious rather than important," one Harvard Faculty member said. "I think he's probably more universally admired than he is liked...
Gardner's reputation as a liberal, however, is based largely on books and writings which are not only eloquent, but perhaps a bit too logically precise for the likings of Harvard. "He's an essayist rather than a writer, an executive more than a leader, and has the air of being prestigious rather than important," one Harvard Faculty member said. "I think he's probably more universally admired than he is liked...
...permanently adopted for himself. His daughter he called Venetia-after the heroine of one of his novels. As Michael Arlen, he became a celebrity from Mayfair to Detroit in the days before the word and the condition were tired and devalued. Now his son, a TV critic and essayist, has written a wry and moving but far from fond memoir of his parents. He avoids the more impersonal roles of biographer or critic, as well as the casual stance of a raconteur with weighty names to drop. Instead, Exiles is a rare and minute accounting of growing up: the connections...