Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical papers as The So-Called Babylonian Notation, Mozart's Handwriting and the Creative Process, The Evolution of Javanese Tone-Systems. Delegates from France and Germany were kept away by the war, and the musicologists soberly discussed probable hindrance of their work elsewhere, applauded a message from French Novelist-Musician Romain Rolland: "In the field of art, there is not . . . any rivalry among nations. The only combat worthy of us is that . . . between culture and ignorance...
...young Hapgood was athletic, introspective, drawn to people "who are not worth while." At Harvard he read Shelley and Wordsworth, was complimented by Santayana for a deeply philosophical remark: "All girls are beautiful." Post-graduate study in Europe included art museums, mistresses, drinking, sightseeing, conversation, desultory reading. Said young Novelist Robert Herrick one day: "Hutch, you don't do a damned thing, do you?" Like many another obtuse observer, says Hapgood, Herrick was apparently correct. But "if I wasn't busy, something was busy with...
Over the rest of the story hangs a question mark that may decide von Horvath's insight as a novelist of his time: How prophetic is the lance-corporal's gradual disillusionment with the Nazi creed? First crack in his faith comes during an undeclared war on "a weak, incompetent nation, with a deplorable system of government." Wounded and permanently disabled while trying to save his captain under machine-gun fire, he discovers that the captain deliberately committed suicide in preference to looting, shooting prisoners, bombing women, children, wounded. When Nazi indifference to individuals robs...
...diplomat, dramatist (Amphytrion 38), novelist and profound student of national characteristics, Author Giraudoux came out of World War I a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Typical Giraudoux observation of current interest to U. S. readers: "The Americans . . . always fight themselves. When they were English, they fought the English, as soon as they were Americans they fought each other. When their culture became sufficiently Germanic, they fought Germany. The first American who took a prisoner in 1917 was named Meyer. So was his prisoner...
Count Antoine de Saint Exupéry, novelist (Night Flight, Wind, Sand and Stars), War I veteran and France's No. 1 airman; as a French Army pilot...