Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very unpleasant fact, says British Poet-Novelist Leonard A. G. Strong, that many children enter school with a natural liking for poetry and are taught to dislike it. Who is to blame? Why, the poetry teachers, answers Strong, who has been a poetry teacher himself.* In his chapter in a new symposium, The Teaching of English in Schools (Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London), Strong distinguishes six common deficiencies in poetry teachers: The teacher dislikes poetry. "A great deal of the current British hostility to poetry dates from the careers of Byron and Shelley, reinforced by that of Oscar Wilde, which have...
Many U.N. diplomats understand that to classify Gromyko it is necessary to realize that he is not only a new statesman, but a prototype of a new race of men. In Darkness at Noon, writing of those bullheaded, bull-minded men who grew up under the Revolution's rod, Novelist Arthur Koestler described that new race...
Gene Tunney, most scholarly of the ex-world heavyweight champs, turned up in the Saturday Review of Literature as a literary critic. Novelist Budd Schulberg's pugilistic The Harder They Fall) wrote Critic Tunney, was "a vulgar book about vulgar people," but "very cleverly written." He read it twice, declared the retired champ: "I did not get the full significance of its gems of wit . . . until the second reading...
Divorced. James Hilton, 46, plumpish, British-born, best-selling novelist (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon) turned Hollywood writer; by onetime Actress Galina Kopineck Hilton, 44 (who told the court: ". . . He could argue much better than I could"); after ten years, no children; in Los Angeles...
...have died then, Forster implies; everything after was anticlimax. It is not the finding of beauty, but the seeking of it, that counts. The man who attempts to isolate his paradise in Other Kingdom loses the one thing that makes it worth having. In The Eternal Moment, a woman novelist captures the primitive beauty of an Italian village; but her book unwittingly turns the village into a tourist center, and destroys it. Says Christ, in one of the stories: "There is no abiding home for strength and beauty among men. The flower fades, the seas...