Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rebecca West is a novelist of note ( The Thinking Reed), a distinguished literary critic (The Strange Necessity). But, above all, as she proved in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941), she is one of the greatest of living journalists...
Auden, who will discuss "The Ironic Hero," is the last speaker in a symposium which has included novelist Ralph Bates, musicologist Adololfo Salazar, and Harry Levin '33, associate professor of English...
Among all the veteran newsmen, big byliners and trained seals who covered the royal wedding, there was one notable cub. For Rebecca West, 55, famed as a novelist, critic and deep student of homo politicus (TIME, Dec. 8), it was her first assignment in spot news reporting. Editor Herbert Gunn of London's Evening Standard had given her his paper's only pass to Westminster Abbey...
This kiddie-car plot will not dismay admirers of Novelist James Hilton, who have learned that his vehicles are always freighted with something worth unloading. In Goodbye, Mr. Chips it was Tender Sentiment; in Lost Horizon it was Thrilling Adventure; in this picture it is Gripping Realism. The story, which takes place in a British mill town between wars, sets forth in sweeping Hiltonian periods the author's social beliefs; he is squarely back of good government and sanitation, strongly opposed to alcoholism...
...Novelist Woodruff tries half-heartedly to get under the skins of his English characters, who are forever mooning over the little lanes and hedges of England but behaving with wise good cheer. The Wild Sweet Witch ends with Jodh Singh's death by violence in 1938. It is not violence brought on by his political beliefs. When he is framed by two of his enemies, he goes wild and kills them; then he dies fighting rather than surrender to the British commissioner. The "wild, sweet witch" of his visionary hopes-a free and happy India-has at least...