Word: glyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KNOCK THE CORNERS OFF by Caroline Glyn. 256 pages. Coward-McCann...
...saying: "Pooh! I don't believe it," you say, not too one-uppishly: "It's not hard really, not nearly as hard as math. Mother told me my great-grandmother way back in the Dark Ages wrote hundreds and hundreds of novels. She was called Elinor Glyn and Lord Curzon was madly in love with her and I thought...
...occur to the editors to proclaim a hero it described as "the most cherished citizen since Theodore Roosevelt" as Man of the Year. In those vividly irreverent days, TIME, in the midst of much praise, noted Charles A. Lindbergh's large feet, and ruefully recorded: "Eleanor Glyn avers he lacks...
Reviewing the production, and indirectly the novel, the Daily Mail found it merely boring, and the London Times suggested that Lady Chatterley is "basically Elinor Glyn scattered with a lot of specious philosophizing...
Things end badly for both Glyn and the British forces, but that is hardly the point. What Novelist Caute shows expertly is a process of decline and fall coupled with an opposing, ominous rise that is by now the ruling cliché of half the world's troubles. The whites cannot even withdraw gracefully; they are paralyzed by native hatred that scarcely attempts to hide its emotions. And what the country faces when the British do leave is all too obvious. Kofi Bandaya, a Lumumba type, runs the People's Progressive Party with a lust for power that...