Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Thomas Dixon, 82, unreconstructed Southern novelist; in Raleigh, N.C. His best-known work, The Clans man, an idealization of the original Ku Klux Klan as the South's knights in shining armor, became the first million-dollar movie (The Birth of a Nation, 1915). Lawyer, politician, Baptist minister, son of a Klan founder, he capitalized on race prejudice, harped loud & long on white ("Aryan") supremacy, sold over 5,000,000 copies of his 20 novels...
...natural enough for Robert to reject the girl (Beverly Tyler) who wants to marry him: "I know my place" (in the boilerworks), he grates. And with faith rather inexplicably restored by great-grandfather's death, it comes easy enough for him to realize that when a popular novelist so wills it, there's a way even for poor boys like him to go to medical school...
...Said Novelist-Historian H. G. Wells: "TIME edits the world for me. It is indispensable to release one's mind from the falsities and misinformation and suppression of party 'organs.' May it prosper for another half century...
...novelist has no business with types; they are the property of economists and politicians and advertisers and other professional bores of our period. . . . The Common Man does not exist. He is an abstraction invented by bores for bores. Even you, dear Mrs. Schultz, are an individual...
...knows up from down. His cardinal urges are sexual, although he doesn't begin to understand why. Pregnancy, everyone believes, is a matter of solitary female ritual, magic; the child is a fruit of moonstruck female blood. "There was not much to feed a man's ego," Novelist Fisher explains...