Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, Zanuck has won two Irving Thalberg Memorial Awards for high-quality production, two Oscars (for Gentleman's Agreement and How Green Was My Valley), and a reputation as Hollywood's outstanding topical trailblazer (The Snake Pit, Pinky). What Zanuck was getting: $260.000 a year (his present salary) for the next 10 years, then an annual $150,000 for his advice...
...leisurely, almost wearily lyrical prose. The combination is arresting. The book, laid in some remote and undefined future, purports to be a study of the career of one Joseph Knecht. Hesse is not so simple as to imagine that biographers in the future will write like those of the present. Many dates, names and places will mean little then, and many historical events nothing. This biographer of the future in the present rambles and rapturizes, leaves out everything a contemporary would regard as essential information and is, by current standards, as dull as Historian Robert Sherwood might have seemed...
Joseph might conceivably have said. But sardonic Author Hesse, casting himself as the historian of the future, is not interested in making the history of the present as plain as all that. He leaves the reader to guess just what did happen to Joseph...
Shafer's group, along with several more Advocate editors, had been fighting for a more down-to-earth approach, while others--particularly the present pro-tem President Lloyd S. Gilmour '51 and Pegasus Donald A. Hall '51--had defended the Advocate's policy of running short stories, criticism, and poetry, as well as articles...
...election took place, because the whole board of editors was not present. Instead Shafer, Wiggin, and Darrell resigned...