Word: kantor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...VOICE OF BUGLE ANN-MacKinlay Kantor-Coward-McCann...
...with the opening of the Worcester Art Museum's second biennial show of U. S. paintings. Because Director Francis Henry Taylor could not and would not pay rentals, the following well-known U. S. artists refused to submit pictures: Alexander Brook, Bernard Karfiol, Ernest Fiene, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Morris Kantor, Reginald Marsh, Katherine Schmidt, Arnold Blanch, Paul Cadmus, Niles Spencer, Henry Schnakenberg. Director Taylor freely admitted that the boycott badly handicapped his exhibition...
...VOICE OF BUGLE ANN-MacKinlay Kantor-Coward-McCann ($1.25). MacKinlay Kantor has long revealed a preoccupation with native Midwestern themes and legends of the sort that characterize folk literature. The Jaybird, his novel of a wandering Civil War musician who befriended a Kansas waif, was a sentimental tale for which modern small towns provided an incongruous and unromantic background. Author Kantor now returns to the mood and manner of The Jaybird with a slight, short novel in which a Missouri legend of a wonderful foxhound serves as the frail basis for a story involving revenge, murder and a family feud...
LONG REMEMBER?MacKinlay Kantor ?Coward-McCann...
...Author Kantor's single -eyewitness method shows to best advantage in the earlier phases of the battle, when the action is comparatively simple and concentrated. Some of his vivid pictures of tired, dirty, wounded men, of galloping batteries and matter-of-fact sharpshooters are unforgettable. Later, when he has to describe a two-mile battle line through the eyes of one spectator, he falls back on impressionistic violence that results in confusion. By & large Long Remember is a brilliantly exciting piece of historical fiction, a book that many a reader will remember long...