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...litterateur, teaching aerology: "I find myself reading the word 'humility' as 'humidity,' and when a novelist writes, 'She burst into tears,' I mentally comment, why doesn't he say 'She reached her dew point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Professors at Work | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Lilian Janet Morley, 73; after long illness; in Baltimore. Widow of Johns Hopkins Professor Frank Morley, she was the mother of three Rhodes Scholars: wambling Litterateur Christopher Darlington (Saturday Review of Literature); Felix Muskett, editor of the Washington Post; Frank Vigor, member of the London publishing house, Faber & Faber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Welles who, in his famous The War of the Worlds broadcast, scared fewer people than Hitler, but more than had ever been frightened by radio before, demonstrating that radio can be a tremendous force in whipping up mass emotion. Playwright of the Year was Thornton Wilder, previously a precious litterateur, whose first play on Broadway, Our Town, was not only ingenious and moving, but a big hit. To Gabriel Pascal, producer of Pygmalion, first full-length picture based on the wordy dramas of George Bernard Shaw, went the title of Cineman of the Year for having discovered a rich mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man of the Year, 1938 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Perhaps most interesting to the litterateur are his reminiscences on the great personalities he has known, and the friendships he has shared with them. He passes from a glimpse of Swinburne, through the Lawrences, Hardy, Campbell to Rupert Brooke, A. E. Housman, George Meredith, and many others. Of these men he gives a view not often shown, one of intimate association, if perhaps only for a short time. But always Squire comes away with the fruits of the acutest interpretation of the character of the man, and he transmits these into his work...

Author: By J. G. B. jr., | Title: The Bookshelf | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Hero-narrator of Author Sandemose's book, however, is not a retired litterateur but a retired murderer. Espen Arnakke, 34, has settled in Norway, become a respectable paterfamilias. Still haunted by the memory of the murder he committed 17 years ago, he tries to lay the ghost by telling the story of his life. But it is less a story than a one-sided conversation, a kind of soliloquery which wanders, digresses, returns again & again to the problem: why should this little boy have grown up to be a murderer? Author Sandemose's eccentrically concentric chronicle is impressively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soliloquery | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

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