Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have won so big a reputation on so small a body of work as Edward Morgan Forster (rhymes with divorced-her). Often described as England's foremost living novelist, he hasn't written a novel since A Passage to India (1924). The four other novels he wrote earlier, all fairly short ones, came in a feverish burst of activity-for him-between 1905 and 1910. The rest of his fiction includes only a dozen short stories, written before World War I and long out of print in the U.S. They have now been collected in one volume...
...members of the leftist Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee who were found guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over records to the House Un-American Activities Committee (TIME, July 7). The whacks: for Chairman Dr. Edward Barsky: six months in jail and $500 fine; for Novelist Howard Fast and nine others: three months in jail and $500 fines; for Theatrical Producer Herman Shumlin, Leverett Gleason (publisher of comic books) and three others: $500 fines and suspended three-month jail terms. The eleven sentenced to jail appealed and were freed on bail...
Celibacy Is Better. The most conspicuous Shaker practice was celibacy. Men & women lived separately in communal houses. A Shaker elder once explained to Novelist William Dean Howells: Shakers did not so much believe that marriage was sinful as, with St. Paul, that marriage is good but celibacy is better. To skeptics who wondered what would become of the human race if everybody were a Shaker, a Shaker replied that he failed to see how "the bringing to an end of this wicked world would be a great wrong. Most nominal Christians believe it will come...
...beliefs and an anarchist in his behavior; unable to curb any of his physical cravings, yet capable of the stupendous discipline needed to complete the Life; romantic about love yet rakish about women; an inflexible snob and a born mixer; irrepressibly gay and morbidly gloomy. ... A character no novelist would have the audacity to invent...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Topic: Joseph Conrad's Victory. Speakers: Eugene O'Neill Jr., Novelist Vincent McHugh, Rutgers Philosophy Professor Houston Peterson...