Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sentence (1), stating that young novelists, because permanent art is arduous, angle after contemporary applause, is simple in meaning though rhetorically sprawling. Sentence (2) restates in altered words the argument of the first sentence, employing the awkward, "a deathicss name"; but afterwards expands, paralleling with the figure of the millionaire and the transplanted elm. After scrutinizing cogitation the transplanted elm appears blatantly impossible, either in its own context or in relation to the young novelist and his contemporary applause. Sentence (3) commences firmly to distinguish between "compact" and "fulfilled," but instead of focusing his point the frivolous poet appends...
Robert Gessner, novelist, poet and screen writer, speaker Sunday at Ford Hall Forum, has selected for his topic the title of his widely sold book, "Some of My Best Friends Are Jews...
...years later, shows how right she was. Kay, who wanted to be a novelist, is a journalist and hates it. Robin (Christopher Quest) is a no-account. Madge (Joan Henley), who dreamed of reforming the world, is an embittered schoolteacher. Hazel (Hazel Terry), who wanted a handsome husband with a yacht, has only a husband. Little Carol (Mary Jones), who loved life so passionately, is dead. Mrs. Conway (Dame Sybil Thorndike) is aging gracelessly. And so it goes. Only Alan (Godfrey Kenton) is contented as a shabby clerk because he has a new conception of time. Time, as he sermonizes...
...between, Austrian supporters, suffering boredom, nervousness, tantrums and fears of revolution, then making fun of everybody and everything to Metternich. Because she did so with a mixture of malice, snobbishness, impatience, heartlessness and occasional humdrum housewifely humor, her private letters make a lively book, packed with characterizations that, a novelist could envy. Thus she describes the conversation of her diplomatic rival, the clumsy, ill-favored wife of the Austrian Ambassador: "Do you know the kind of woman who always wants to be the centre of social interest? She is afraid of mice, she loves cats, she tumbles down, she burns...
WINTER ix APRIL-Robert Nathan- Knopf ($2). In his 13th novel Author Nathan's deft, gently ironic fantasy-now working as smoothly as a zipper-shows to its usual advantage. He has not forfeited the compliment once paid him by Louis Bromfield. "There are," said Novelist Bromneld of the works of Novelist Nathan, "no books in the world so pleasant to read just before turning...