Word: postscript
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among books by U.S. critics were Van Wyck Brooks's mellow The Times of Melville and Whitman; Edmund Wilson's jarringly narrow-minded Europe Without Baedeker; Lloyd Morris' genre pieces in Postscript to Yesterday. Welcome relief from the weedlike academicism that is choking American criticism were V. S. Pritchett's urbane, pleasant but acute essays on English writers in The Living Novel...
...Methuselah, the ancient of ancients, lived 969 years, according to the Bible. Modern Bible scholars estimate that he actually lived 192. But, according to Bernard Shaw, "the legend of Methuselah is neither incredible nor unscientific." In a postscript to Back to Methuselah, Shaw contended that death is "unnatural" and that man may some day achieve immortality...
Those of you who have had a chance to talk to businessmen home from Europe have undoubtedly benefited by their first-hand observations of the European scene, and have found that such a viewpoint provides a matter-of-fact, often illuminating postscript to the excellent reports of trained American journalists. A case in point is TIME's advertising director, Harry Phillips, who went to England, France, Belgium, Switzerland and The Netherlands to examine postwar business conditions there and to talk to exporters about advertising in TIME Inc.'s overseas editions. Some excerpts from his strictly personal report...
...play has as much (and no more) validity in 1947 as it had in 1921: we should aspire to live longer if we wish to live, and govern, well. Our statesmen are "not old enough for their jobs." Now an irrepressible 90, Bernard Shaw adds in his postscript...
When the Oxford Press asked Bernard Shaw to name one of his works for, its World's Classics series, he chose this agile old fantasy of faith in Creative Evolution. He chipped at the famous preface, juggled the text a little, and added a postscript declaring that it is "a world classic or it is nothing." Oxford is now publishing all this for the first time in the U.S. as No. 1 in a new Galaxy Edition, larger and more legible than the old World's Classics books...