Word: guerard
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...Albert Guerard certainly takes such care in his story entitled "Miss Prindle's Lover." It is the closest approach to old-style narrative in the magazine, and whether you happen to be interested or not--I was--in a story about the peculiar attraction a middle-aged spinster has for a young man, it is impossible to deny that Guerard has drawn convincing characters and taken them through a series of comprehensible events, rare virtues indeed...
...saccharine puree that Good Housekeeping and Glamour prefer, 1960's novelists may very well be a bunch of alayeys, modeling their work to the taste of every tired, disillusioned woman's magazine editor. Signature would have done better if they tried to obtain local writer-teachers such as Albert Guerard or John Ciardi to give advice. They at least would have recognized that writing is still an art and a calling, not a trade that pays less in dignity and common rewards than pawnbroking...
Among the younger men, Bate, Guerard, and Kelleher all show great promise in their respective subjects. Baker and Wanning have not come off quite so well in their initial attempts in larger courses this year, although that may be the result of Freshman nervousness...
...catalogue calls English A-2a for biographical profiles, memoirs, short stories, news reports, reviews of books, plays or music, editorials, special features." Instructor Albert T. Guerard last week used an old refrain: "this course is too large. People interested in writing news reports, special features, editorials, and reviews has better go out for the Crimson Comp...
Scattered throughout the volume are short vignettes of men and institutions which are well worth reading even without regard for the general context. Professor Guerard has the advantages of a Gallic mind thoroughly at home in the English idiom, and his sparking deftness of phrase makes him delightful reading. However much one may disagree with his conclusions, the author has proved himself competent to handle his subject matter, and has done it in a most entertaining manner...