Word: hervey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BEDFORD VILLAGE-Hervey Allen-Farrar & Rinehart...
...strength of Hervey Allen's fiction is in its pageantry, the broad sweep of forest, river and mountains, with details piled on in careless abundance, and with sudden spirited scenes of violence lighting up in dividual characters with a brief intense flash. Often the situations are operatic, with the posturings and awkwardnesses of opera. But at moments they give way to a clarity of scene and character vivid as one of the Indian villages Captain Jack's paleface braves come upon suddenly in the woods. The total effect is epic and dis orderly. But so was the frontier...
...British Foreign Office's censors are two retired diplomats: 1) Sir Robert MacLeod Hodgson, 70; 2) Sir Reginald Hervey Hoare,* 62. Said Sir Robert at his small wooden desk at the Ministry of Information: "They think we are interfering old fogies, but we are not. Our job is to see that stories are not cabled that are likely to stir up discord between the Allies...
...63rd book, carried his almost legendary Lanny Budd through the corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed out Vol. I of a projected six-volume epic novel about American life from Colonial days to the Civil War. In Thunderhead ($2.75), Mary O'Hara told, with delicate feeling for animals, a very human life story of a horse, a sequel to her My Friend Flicka. Martin...
...Hervey Allen has done, he says, "more writing than almost any American." Behind him are eight books of poems, five of prose. Toward the Flame is considered one of the best U.S. personal records of World War I (of which Allen is a wounded veteran). In biography his greatest claim to scholarly fame is Israfel (TIME, Dec. 24, 1934), a searching study of the life and times of Edgar Allan...