Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Courbet's best admirers were realists like himself (men like Novelist Zola), men who also swam against the popular current. To 20th Century eyes, Courbet looks like a rock-solid conservative. Actually, his realistic art not only ran counter to the great traditions of his day, it profoundly influenced Manet, Renoir and Cezanne, the founding fathers of modern...
Died. Robert Stephen Briffault, 72, hawk-nosed novelist, anthropologist and World War I surgeon; of tuberculosis; in Sussex, England (where he recently arrived after a 20-year self-imposed exile in France). A British-born Anglophobe, Briffault left medicine for the social sciences, in 1927 writing The Mothers, an exhaustive study of matriarchies, and in 1938 scornfully castigating his country in The Decline and Fall of the British Empire (Britons were too soft to survive). His novels (Europa; Europa in Limbo) presented European upper-class society as too diseased to be worth saving...
...tiny populations of Scandinavia can never hope to oppose aggression with physical force," wrote Novelist Evelyn Waugh after a visit to Scandinavia last year. "If they are to survive it must be through spiritual strength, and there alas . . . they are woefully enfeebled . . . They are secularized from infancy by the omnicompetent state, and as a result are unique in history in having no religion...
Divorced. Artie Shaw, 38, bandleader: by his sixth wife, Kathleen Winsor, 30, bestselling novelist (Forever Amber); after two years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
...fight raged around Novelist E. (for Eileen) Arnot Robertson, who in 1946 was dropped as BBC's film critic after M-G-M charged that her reviews were "unnecessarily harmful." Because the movie company publicized its complaining letter to BBC, Miss Robertson sued for libel and slander and collected $6,000 damages (TIME, July...