Word: eudora
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...Ponder Heart (adapted from Eudora Welty's story by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov) puts all its slightly addled eggs in one basket-the basket of charm. Since they are really all Easter eggs to begin with, the thing works out very well. The whole Southern small-town tale of a lovable, eccentric ne'er-do-ill put on trial for murder has a light pastel daffiness about it, a way of making life look delightfully woozy through wrong-prescription rose-colored glasses...
...Chodrov, however, do not search for comical situations in a plot which obviously has none to offer. Instead, they unmercifully exploit the humorous possibilities of Ponder's eccentricity. As a result, it is practically impossible to laugh with a character who must have been whimsical when short story writer Eudora Welty first created him. One has to laugh at him if one is to laugh at all; a lot of cruelty lies hidden underneath the glib surface of the comedy...
...Robert Gibbons' second novel. (First was Bright Is the Morning.) Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1915, he began to write at 18, served during the war aboard an LST in the Pacific. His work is widely praised by such Southerners as Robert Penn Warren, Erskine Caldwell and Eudora Welty, seems typical of a growing school of graceless disillusionment in fiction, too accomplished not to be taken seriously, and too narrow not to be viewed with alarm by readers who respect its talents and potential contribution...
...Snow was editor of the American Vogue when Richard Berlin, boss of Hearst magazines, lured her away in 1932. (Today Harper's, like Town & Country, gets only the gentlest Hearstian supervision.) She and her fiction editors have bought and plugged such bylines as Virginia Woolf, Jean Stafford, Eudora Welty, Christopher Isherwood, Anna Kavan and Colette...
...been picking up . . . . Our literature is just on the verge of getting significant." He singled out as the best of the young writers Jean (The Mountain Lion} Stafford, Thomas (Mister Roberts) Heggen, A. B. (The Big Sky) Guthrie Jr., and shared Robert Penn Warren's enthusiasm for Eudora (Delta Wedding) Welty...