Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friends were often disgusted by Woollcott's grossness, sickened by his gush, ashamed when, for example, he hurled himself on his knees before Novelist Somerset Maugham in a crowded elevator, crying "Maitre!" But many of them loved and respected the man inside the Fabbulous Monster. They knew that Woollcott was boundlessly kind and generous without ever admitting it, that out of his swollen income he gave away huge sums-to friends, charities, young men trying to get a start in life. But sometimes the very combination of Christian and Monster seemed intolerable. "Your brother has a heart of gold...
Knut Hamsun, 85, Nobel Prizewinning Norwegian novelist (Growth of the Soil, The Road Leads On) and pro-Nazi intellectual, was reported to have suffered a nervous breakdown upon learning of the German collapse. Once before the old man was made ill by wartime: a stroke overtook him in 1942 when countrymen who had once loved his books mailed him thousands of dog-eared copies after he advised them to "throw away your rifles. . . " The Germans are fighting for us and now are crushing England's tyranny over us and all neutrals...
...Paul Joseph Goebbels, the unsuccessful novelist who became the Nazi Party's satirically clever propagandist...
...Priestly, blunt-penned British novelist, decried his countrymen's subjection to American films-"to sit through trash that was never meant for them but for school children out in the Middle West." His emancipation plan: "stop this American . . . film drivel...
George Santayana, 81-year-old poet, philosopher, novelist (The Last Puritan), was awarded Columbia University's quinquennial Nicholas Murray Butler gold medal for his four metaphysical books, Realms of Being. The award will have to go to Rome where, since 1941, he has shunned war in a convent, finding that "in solitude it is possible to love mankind...