Word: pritchett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plough is the chronicle of its infantrymen's life & death. Published last year in Britain, the book was both a bestseller and a critical success. Some reviewers described it as the All Quiet of World War II; others were reminded of Journey's End. Critic V. S. Pritchett, one of Britain's best, called it simply "the only war book that has conveyed any sense of reality to me." Published now in the U.S., it conveys, unabated, a sense of quiet reality more remarkable than any American World War II writer has yet achieved...
British Critics V. S. Pritchett and C. Day Lewis made no mistake when they gave Miss Barker the Maugham Award. Nor did the London Daily Mail's Peter Quennell, when he praised her for writing of people "she seems to know and feel for -from the soles of their erring feet to the crowns of their shining heads...
...dictatorship. Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, an ambitious effort to analyze a modern type of disintegrated personality and to make it universal, failed in the second aim; but his descriptions of a Mexican setting were memorable. The finest short stories of the year were perhaps V. S. Pritchett's It May Never Happen and J. F. Powers' sketches of Catholic clergy in Prince of Darkness. Lionel Trilling's The Middle of the Journey was a thoughtful but disappointing study of New York liberal intellectuals. Saul Bellow's The Victim, for the most part...
...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...
...Associated Press reported last night that Norton G. Pritchett, Director of Athletics at the University of Virginia, refused to comment on how Moravec was injured until he had seen motion pictures of the game...