Word: lewises
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Andrew K. Lewis, one of the frequent writers of the show and a Harvard grad, class of '49, was assigned to do the script. By the end of January, he had a preliminary outline done. Until three weeks ago, he constantly revised and tightened this up. The he started writing...
Lewis was nervously walking up and down, bumming cigarettes, explaining the script, making changes. Mary Ahern, Radcliffe '42, the feature editor, returned from lunch. She was soon busy in conference.
For those who do, the book will perhaps rank with the best of Lewis. An acute and complex mind analyzes an early family history, a despicable educational system, a precocious not to say avaricious literary experience, and the spiritual roots of England in the twenties, with wit, insight, and dignity...
And so, the biography is alien. It can for most readers prove only an interesting, not a moving account, because at heart, conversion is unsharable, and Lewis too much respects both his own and others' privacy to recreate what in himself would be accessible to most readers. His use of...
As a spiritual account, this history is nowhere nearly so effective as much of his other work. Instead of the penetrating commentary on contemporary atheism as an excuse for sloth, vice, and weakness which he gives with urbane wit in The Screwtape Letters, we find a revolution of 'vices' in...