Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long ago as last August, Caracas' everlasting bolas (rumors) had whispered that the army was dissatisfied with the way things were going in the government offices at green-walled Miraflores Palace. Novelist-President Gallegos and the ruling Acción Democrádtica party wanted to reduce the army to a police force; the army had no intention of being demoted. High officers called on President Gallegos, demanded four cabinet posts, four governorships. Easygoing, well-meaning Gallegos did nothing...
...always, Shaw enjoyed himself. He trotted out a string of British and Irish influencers whom most of the critics had never heard of or never deigned to bother with. But high up on Shaw's eccentric list was eccentric Samuel Butler (1835-1902), novelist and creative evolutionist. "It drives one almost to despair," snapped Shaw, "when one sees so extraordinary a study of English life as Butler's posthumous Way of All Flesh making so little impression that when I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh, free, and future-piercing suggestions have an obvious share...
There is British Novelist J. B. Priestley, who drew a harsh picture of New York (in which all too many New Yorkers could recognize themselves): "The lonely heart of man cannot come home there. It [New York] is filled with people who, after three quick drinks, begin to dream of somewhere else ... [It is] the expression perhaps of some titanic strain in the soul of modern man, making him feel uneasy when he remembers the gods...
...visiting Europe, he called on great men who not only made him welcome but asked him to come again. Benjamin Franklin, then in London, took him to the court of George III, introduced him to his literary friends, and lent him money. Rush dined with Artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, Novelist Oliver Goldsmith ("He spoke with the Irish accent"), and crotchety Literary Czar Samuel Johnson, who reports Dr. Rush was rude to Goldsmith. Rush even got himself invited as a dinner guest of famed Political Prisoner John Wilkes in the King's Bench prison. Wilkes had 15 guests...
...Novelist Evelyn Waugh has said of his friend's translation: "It is unquestioned that for the past 300 years the Authorized Version has been the greatest single formative influence in English prose style. But that time is over . . . When the Bible ceases, as it is ceasing, to be accepted as a sacred text, it will not long survive for its fine writing. It seems to me probable that in a hundred years' time the only Englishmen who know their Bibles will be Catholics. And they will know it in Msgr. Knox's version...