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...much good the seminars would do, if any, nobody knew. But last week Founder Brown warned the maiden class that journalism somehow must jack itself up above the level of novelty, shock and violence. "Unless we brilliantly improve our skills and techniques," he said, "we face ... a crisis of meaninglessness. Innumerable brief reports, presented without perspective or background, can only drive the reader into a mental fog. . . . We must lift our sights...
...Unsocial Socialist (1883) is the most Shavian of the three reprinted novels. " 'Of course, she has proposed to you, and you have refused,' " says a scornful maiden to Sidney Trefusis, the hero. " 'On the contrary,' " he says. " 'I proposed, and she accepted. That is why I have to hide.' " Trefusis is a wealthy Socialist who disguises himself as a workman, lives in a gaudy ancestral mansion full of trapezes, plaster statues and carpenter's tools. He serves as a mouthpiece for Author Shaw, then a poverty-stricken young Socialist who wandered around London...
Pert, talented Author Ruth (My Sister Eileen) McKenney was born with revolt in her veins. Said she: "My mother, whose maiden name was Flynn, was an Irish nationalist. ... In my Sunday school . . . my sister Eileen and I were evicted for having pernicious views." Along the rocky road to fame, as the writer of a zany best-seller and slick Hollywood scenarios, Ruth McKenney paused to join the Communist Party. Her corpuscles promptly began to tingle again. A 1940 sample: "The Second Imperialist War ... is a fight among thieves, a bloody quarrel among the vultures...
...talk only to Cabots; they have also apparently talked freely to Ferris Greenslet, former Houghton Mifflin editor-in-chief, and granted him permission to quote from family letters and papers. The, result is a short history of ten Lowell generations, down to and including that of the stout, imperious maiden lady who admired Keats and smoked long Manila cigars...
...Vining, a Quaker graduate of Germantown Friends School and Bryn Mawr (cum laude), once taught English at a girls' school, library science at the University of North Carolina. In recent years she has written historical romances and biographies for teenagers. A childless widow, she publishes under her maiden name, Elizabeth Janet Gray...