Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Danger & Beauty. When not on the bridge, Captain Illingworth sits at his desk just below it, bobbing up every three or four minutes to scan the sea ahead. He is equally alert to the danger and the beauty of the North Atlantic, and the slightest change of light brings him to his feet. "Look at that, sir. Look at that patch of sunlight to the right of the fog bank ahead. Did you ever see anything like that?" he roars, his sea-blue eyes glowing at the sight. After 44 years at sea he still acts like a man from...
...Philosophy Is Born. Some light is shed on the new philosophy by the way in which Sébille, anxious to clamber on to the lurching bandwagon of postwar Parisian culture, hit upon its name. One day Sébille met a charming girl in an existentialist bar. Said he: "After dinner I proposed to her that we get to know each other more intimately. She replied with a disarming smile: 'Of course. I'm an intimatist.' The name of my philosophy was found...
...suspicion that gentlemen prefer blondes. During the war the relations of government and business were so extensive, the number of contracts so vast, that there are bound to be numerous dark corners that need to be looked into, plenty of shady deals that could not bear the light of day. The committee could do the country a real service by uncovering them. But this particular investigation has its own merits from the point of view of the Republicans. For the magic name of Roosevelt is involved. FDR's administration will in time become a rosy myth, and the name Roosevelt...
...already spent five years on. He is reluctant to talk about it. In Ohio, Pulitzer Prizewinner ROBERT PENN WARREN (All the King's Men) was deep in a long ballad about the frontier, and also writing a novel "about a man who undertook a deed of light, but who, because he undertook it without understanding its context, performed in the end a deed of darkness." Another Pulitzer Prizewinner, JOHN P. MARQUAND, didn't believe that "a writer's apt to evolve very much after he's 40," but at 53 he was off to the marshes...
Though most writers agreed that the Hemingway influence had spent itself, they were less sure of what is to come in U.S. writing. Said Robert Penn Warren: "I know that it had better not be the cozy and vulgar version of sweetness-and-light longed for by the friends and relations of Oliver Allston [Elder Critic Van Wyck Brooks] or by complacent tinhorn patrioteers. The times we are heading into shouldn't give much encouragement for that guff except in the lending libraries." Added Dos Passos: "Young writers who believe in themselves should be willing to starve...