Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MEREDITH (269 pp.) -Siegfried Sassoon -Viking...
...George Meredith was the Evelyn Waugh of the Victorians. He was wondrously clever, with a wit that snapped and crackled and never faltered through more than 20 novels. "His pages so teem with fine sayings and magniloquent epigrams, gorgeous images, and fantastic locutions," said Critic W. E. Henley, that "the mind would welcome a little dullness as a glad relief." Had he had the virtue of simplicity, in addition to his other talents, he might have been to English fiction what Shakespeare is to its poetry and drama...
...likes hard work, hiking and collecting the works of George Meredith, Killian has been Compton's right hand for nine years, M.I.T.'s vice president for the last five. Most M.I.T. students think they have to study hard enough already ("Tech is hell! Tech is hell!" says the school yell), but Killian hopes to add to their academic burdens more civilizing courses in liberal arts. Also, says Killian solemnly, "A little gaiety might be appropriate...
Mine Own Executioner. Perceptive melodrama, with Burgess Meredith as a preoccupied psychiatrist (TIME...
Mine Own Executioner. Perceptive melodrama, with Burgess Meredith as a preoccupied psychiatrist, and Kieron Moore as the patient that got away (TIME...