Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Included among these will be professors from five American universities, poet W. H. Auden, English novelist Ralph Bates, and two presentations of music from the Cervantine period. Harvard representatives on the slate will be Amade Alonso, professor of Romance Languages, and Jean, Joseph Sexnec. Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages...
...Critic Trilling, author of neat books about Forster and Matthew Arnold, is not yet a finished novelist. He mishandles the Dostoevskian character of Maxim. A good deal of the book frays out in thin, earnest psychologizing, a weakness which Trilling's clear grey style has not enough impetus to overcome...
...paid musicians of "lack of discipline and inadequate rehearsing." But nothing had gone awry with the orchestra, only with the soloists. Dutch journalist Henri van Eysden had an explanation. The astonishing amnesia of two soloists in one evening could be explained only by the kind of foul play that Novelist Du Maurier put Svengali up to in Trilby. It was all the fault of a Dutch building contractor who practiced hypnosis and mental telepathy as a hobby, he said. The contractor had laid a bet that he could wreck a concert by tele-hypnosis...
...first blast was against President Truman. In Moscow's Literary Gazette, Novelist Boris Garbatov, famed in the U.S.S.R. for his wartime best seller, The Unvanquished, likened Truman to Hitler. A protest from U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith got nowhere. So last week the State Department released the full text in the U.S. Excerpts...
Died. Gregorio Martinez Sierra, 66, prolific Spanish novelist-playwright, best known abroad for his Cradle Song (Eva Le Gallienne starred in it during the 1926-27 Broadway season); of cancer; in Madrid, 15 days after ending more than a decade of self-imposed exile...