Word: gibran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S People editor has, I trust, time for one revision. He has generously allotted time-conscious Poet T. S. Eliot an extra decade to overtake Rivals Khayyam, Browning and Gibran in the race for the favor of Smith girls [TIME...
...raising star of Medea (adapter: Robinson Jeffers), responded to a request by the Saturday Review of Literature for a list of her current reading. Besides the collected poems of Robinson Jeffers, Actress Anderson, who plays eight hard shows a week, listed one current novel, a couple of biographies, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, the collected works of Charles Dickens, the collected works of William Shakespeare, James Joyce's Ulysses, the Bible...
Omar Khayyam, whose pleasantly fatalistic Rubaiyat was a campus favorite in the '90's, was now the best-selling poet at Smith College. The local bookshop reported further that T. S. Eliot (see Col. 3) was way down in fourth place: he trailed Elizabeth Browning and Kahlil Gibran...
...Manhattan's Church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie. In the audience was Barbara Young, who then was working in a bookstore in the Brevoort Hotel, has had a poem published in the New York Times almost every week since 1922. She became the most ardent Gibran follower and at his death in 1931, his literary executor. This Man from Lebanon, her memorial volume to the Master, suffers from its hushed reverence before Kahlil Gibran's slightest words and actions...
...Seller. The Prophet sold only 1,100 copies in the first year. Then it began to go. Twenty years later its overall sales totaled 300,000. Last year it was Knopf's next best seller (60,000 copies) to John Hersey's A Bell for Adano. Since Gibran's death a committee of 40 Bsherri townspeople has collected his sizable royal ties, devoting them to charity. (One royalty check came back endorsed by all 40.) Unable to pay them because of the war, Knopf has accumulated $20,000 for the committee...