Word: litt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...received the honorary degree D. Litt, from Oxford and an LL.D. from the University of Edinburgh...
...banded together to produce it. Its editor is a German-born exile from Nazi-occupied Czecho-Slovakia and The Netherlands: slight, balding Klaus Mann, son of Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Thomas Mann. Editorial advisers include such refugee notables as Dr. Eduard Benes, Stefan Zweig, Somerset Maugham, such native littérateurs as Playwright Robert Sherwood, Newsman Vincent Sheean, Editor (of The Nation) Freda Kirchwey, Taletellers Stephen Vincent Benét and Sherwood Anderson...
...anonymous author. In his fussily graceful preface, Albert Jay Nock implied not only that Mr. "A. B." is dead but that he is embalmed in more than a few grains of salt. A reviewer for Commonweal suggested that Nock was merely hiding behind himself. In the Herald Tribune, Banker-Littérateur Lewis Galantiere unveiled the Meditator as his "master," Dr. Erasmus Beebe, "the recluse of Remsen Street." (Mr. Galantiere admitted later that he was just having a little fun, hornswoggling credulous readers.) At month's end the author, dead or alive, remained anonymous; his slow-spoken aphorisms continued...
...Richards over Dubliners-as shriveling a statement of the artist-publisher situation as has ever seen print; an extraordinarily beautiful letter he wrote to Ibsen when he was 19; two invective poems which suggest Swift's and are quite as good. One of them, addressed to the Dublin littérateurs he held in such contempt, ends with these proud lines...