Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accepted the award of the Nobel Prize as a literary distinction. I rejoiced . . . But I was wrong." White-haired Russian Poet-Novelist Boris Pasternak wrote these abject words in Pravda last week, and the Soviet news agency Tass triumphantly fired them round the world as Pasternak's "confession" that the Swedish prize committee's award to him last month had been "political...
...SCIENCE). But the Russian insults to neutral Sweden for rewarding Pasternak had left a sour taste in the mouths of the 15 Nobel judges (among them: U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold). They had honored Pasternak not because he was anti-Communist but because they considered him a great poet...
Pictures in Writing. To Washington Correspondent James ("Scotty") Reston of the New York Times, Mary McGrory's "poet's gift of analogy" is a thing that puts her in a special class, and is one reason that he has tried to hire her. Mary's copy stands out against her rivals' because she has what one colleague calls the ability to "write pictures" of what she sees and hears. "I have very few opinions, but powerful impressions," she says. "I'm poor at summary, significance, relating-all I can do is respond...
Died. Zoe Akins, 71, playwright (De-classee, The Greeks Had a Word for It), poet, novelist, screenwriter; of cancer; in Los Angeles. In 1935, Missouri-born Zoe Akins won a Pulitzer Prize for her Broadway adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid, but despite her durable professional success she deplored "the tragedy of feminine careers." Writing for Hollywood was "not difficult," she said. "All you have to do is write six pages every day, then grab the money and run for the train...
...poet is not just a vague philosopher," he added. "Here the existentialists join up with the modern movement to analyze language...