Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign against illiteracy - with matchbooks exhorting DON'T BE ANALPHABETIC!- was in full swing. The Government was distributing good cheap books, and it looked as though the new President of Venezuela's first representative government in generations would be Rómulo Gallegos Freire, a revered old novelist. A nation, most of whose citizens believe that the way to cure a cold is to grow a beard, found itself saying : "We've always had a grand future. Now we have a chance to make the future the present...
Spanish names made tragic news: Madrid reported that Mario, son of the late, best-selling Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), had been sentenced to twelve years in prison on a charge of having once been a Mason. He might get a commutation: he is paralyzed, deaf and nearly blind...
...every night, such works as Shaw's Man and Superman (four hours), Wagner's Tristan and Isolde (four hours), Bach's Art of Fugue, Mahler's Lied von der Erde, a psychology lecture by Sir Cyril Burt. a critical appraisal of U.S. novelist Henry James. Coming attractions: all Mozart's violin concertos, all Beethoven's piano sonatas, Goethe's Faust, a dramatization of Melville's Moby Dick...
...Communist, now-Socialist Koestler is easily the top intellectual argufier writing today. Still picking the tough ones, he has now written a novel about Palestine and the Jews who claim it as their home. Thieves in the Night will not add a cubit to the stature of Koestler the novelist. But Koestler the acrobatic controversialist is at home in Palestine...
...from the conference table to armed terrorism. Koestler tells the story of a typical Jewish commune and the 25 pioneers from Europe who settled it. Starting from scratch on a barren, rock-strewn hilltop, they wind up, two years later, with a self-sufficient agricultural community supporting 300. Another novelist might have made this the whole show (having fitted in the appropriate love affairs and local Arab color), but for Koestler it is only a beginning. By the time he is through, and for all the occasional flashes of narrative brilliance, many readers will feel that they have read...