Word: novelists
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Critics Olin Downes and Virgil Thomson, British novelist E. M. Forster, and a host of widely-known composors and musicians will plunge into a three-day examination of the principles of music criticism at a large-scale symposium in Cambridge on May 1, 2, and 3, the Department of Music announced recently...
...prepared to engage Russia in the Battle for Germany (at Moscow in March). But last week the Battle for France, also an important sector of the Battle for Europe, was well on the way to being lost. Arthur Koestler, brilliant novelist (Darkness at Noon) and acute observer of European affairs, reported (in the N.Y. Times Sunday magazine) what he had just seen in France. His report read like an obituary of Europe's hopes...
...same thick, brilliant gloss is spread over the characters and their emotions. The boy Jody is well played by a twelve-year-old Tennessee schoolboy named Claude Jarman Jr. His father, Penny Baxter (described by Novelist Rawlings as a scrawny, narrow-shouldered runt), is acted with clean competence-a mite too clean -by handsome Gregory Peck, 6ft. 3 in. Glum, discouraged Ma Baxter is impersonated with affecting skill by Jane Wyman, whose talents have been wasted for years by Warner Bros, in pert ingénue roles. But even in scrubbed, unlipsticked make-up Miss Wyman's trim face...
Minor Mission. Author Roberts is best known as a novelist with a vengeance, or at least a mission: in Rabble in Arms he argued the forgotten merits of Benedict Arnold, in Wiswell he made an earnest case for colonial Loyalists and Tories. In Lydia, the mission is a minor one. Roberts' main aim seems to be to expose the incompetence of Tobias Lear, onetime private secretary to George Washington...
Died. Constance Garnett, 84, pioneer and most prolific English translator of Russian literature, widow of Essayist Edward Garnett, mother of Novelist David Garnett; in Edenbridge, England. Despite failing eyesight (she had to have the Russian texts read aloud), shy, scholarly Mrs. Garnett labored for 50 years over the prodigious task of translating the works of Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Chekhov, the best of Tolstoy, much of Gogol. Her translations are regarded as among the best in their field, were largely responsible for the role Russian literature played in the transition from Victorian letters to 20th Century realism...