Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passing, the conveners saluted the few men who in only three years have made this novel kind of insurance a nationwide big little business: Clarence Rufus Rorem, accountancy expert, onetime associate director of the Rosenwald Fund, who establishes these plans for members of the American Hospital Association ; Homer Wickenden, onetime social worker, who raised the money to start the first hospital service in Manhattan, now general director of New York City's United Hospital Fund; Frank Van Dyk, fund-raising specialist, who sold the idea to 600,000 New Yorkers, and as executive director of the Associated Hospital Service...
Besides informal discussions, the continuance of the formal lectures inaugurated last term by Bernard De Voto's talks on the American historical novel was announced...
...Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Franz Werfel wrote a novel that was at once an account of an extraordinary military operation, a story of a successful resistance to tyranny, a tribute to simple religious fervor. Containing more heavily mystical passages than most best-sellers (total sales 158,000 copies), it made up for them with excellent descriptions of well-planned, hard-fought, hand-to-hand battles. Moreover, it had the inherent excitement of a struggle in which a hopelessly outnumbered force decides to fight, turns on its enemy and wins...
Brought out a week before the publication of the last volumes of Thomas Mann's story of Joseph, Hearken unto the Voice resembles it only in its underlying theme. Where Mann's novel is subtle and slow-paced, Werfel's is melodramatic and tempestuous. It may well be more popular than Mann's four-volume masterpiece. With most of its characters black & white sketches, Hearken unto the Voice rises to the heights of great literature only in the passages (which Author Werfel has lifted from the Old Testament) where the prophet thunders his denunciations...
Except for minor disguises, says Austrian Author Frischauer, A Great Lord tells the true story of a Polish aristocrat in Napoleonic times. In theme, it is almost a first-class historical novel in the tradition of Tolstoy or Stendhal. With twice his imagination and half his unconscious Polish bias, Author Frischauer might have lived up to this tradition, instead of merely recalling it to his book's detriment. But by comparison with most recent historical romances, A Great Lord is a solidly written, serious work...