Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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April 1950, is a story about a successful young woman novelist...
...social science, natural science, and humanities, as well as a growing menu of electives, e.g., oral communication, Hebrew, a survey of style and structure in music. To teach his courses, President Sachar has assembled a faculty of 30 this year (up from 14 in 1948), including such lights as Novelist-Critic Ludwig Lewisohn and column-writing Political Scientist Max Lerner. Says Sachar: "We want to make certain of having some star in each area. I tell students, 'Don't take courses-take people...
...this point, In Sicily is an excellent novel about the same kind of simple and appealing people that Ignazio Silone (Bread and Wine, The Seed Beneath the Snow) writes about-all done in a clipped Hemingwayesque style. But just about midway, Novelist Vittorini goes off on a wild-swinging tear into symbolism which is part sentimentality, part hallucination. His characters begin to chant lugubrious dirges about the "world's outrages" that sound as if they had been written by William Saroyan with an ice pack on his head...
...dubbed "eccentric" by his fellow countrymen, a Briton must be eccentric indeed-almost out of his wits, in fact. One contemporary Briton who unquestionably deserved the title was the late Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (1886-1926). Novelist Firbank was an esthete whose behavior was so "odd" that even such a case-hardened bird-watcher as Sir Osbert Sitwell is moved to confess in an introduction that Friend Firbank must have felt a bit "hedged off" in a private world that was noticeably "different from that of others...
...years Mississippi Novelist William Faulkner has published 18 books. Some of them (The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Intruder in the Dust) are among the best in 20th Century U.S. fiction; others, as might be expected from a man producing at Faulkner's rate, are inferior and slapdash. In the latter group is Knight's Gambit, a collection of six stories (a couple of them written for the Satevepost) more or less conforming to detective-story formulas...