Word: litte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Littérateur. In Kristiansand, Norway, Carstein Brekke insisted on personally writing his own confession to a murder charge, on the grounds that police versions were much too commonplace and lacked "an intellectual form...
Afterward, on the sidewalk outside the theater, intellectuals milled around, furiously debating the merits and meaning of the play. Said the literary weekly Carrefour: "Remarkable. . . . Barrault has a sense of greatness, a poetic imagination." Les Nouvelles Littéraires: "A surprising and almost unhoped-for success. . . . The prodigious miming of Barrault . . . is the soul of the entire play." Only the Communist Les Lettres Françaises found it "mortally boring...
Edouard Herriot, president of the French National Assembly, onetime Premier, off-&-on littérateur, was the latest immortal to be admitted to the French Academy...
...Average American, a Moscow lecture audience learned from lionized Littérateur Ilya Ehrenburg, guest in the U.S. last summer, is: a dreamer, overly self-confident, but a man of good intentions, and "no fool." He is politically immature, but there is hope for him; his mind is growing...
...flunked out of Princeton (he now holds an honorary degree of Litt. D. from Yale). In a mood of youthful truculence, he prospected for gold in Honduras, married his first wife (whom he later divorced), repeatedly went to sea taking any job he could get, finally wound up as an able-bodied seaman. For O'Neill the discovery of the sea was almost a religious experience. Later in Manhattan, he bummed around at a saloon called Jimmy the Priest's (Jimmy was the prototype of the saloon keeper in The Iceman Cometh). Later he acted in his father...