Word: pseudonymous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just after World War II that Kennan, the Russian expert, came into his own. As Counselor of the Moscow embassy, he coached Ambassadors W. Averell Harriman and Bedell Smith. Back in Washington, he became head of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff in 1947. Under the pseudonym "Mr. X," he wrote, in Foreign Affairs, his famous article, "The Sources of Soviet Conduct." Destined to be the field manual of cold-war diplomacy, the article outlined the "containment" policy which has been the basis of U.S. strategy. "Soviet pressure against the free institutions of the Western world," said...
Henry Gauthier-Villars, known to all France at the turn of the century by his simple pseudonym, "Willy," was regarded as the most prolific hack-writer of his day. His admirers marveled that one man could produce such a torrent of puff-pastry fiction, dramatizations, music and theater criticism, and racy personal history. Actually, Willy did nothing of the sort. He employed hacks to do his hacking; he was squire of an estate of sharecropping "ghosts...
...patients undergoing psychoanalysis keep any notes of the long, soul-searching sessions. If they write anything at all about the experience, they usually fictionalize it under a pseudonym. Not so New York Timeswoman. Lucy Freeman. Like the good reporter she is, Lucy Freeman hurried from the couch to a quiet corner, where she recorded all that seemed important of what she had told the analyst and what he had told her. The literary result: a 332-page book, Fight Against Fears (Crown...
...opening proposition of this historical novel is one to make fans snuggle comfortably into their armchairs: a mysteriously commanding figure turns up in England one day in 1755 using the patently inappropriate pseudonym, the Rev. Mr. Blandison. Who is Parson Blandison? None other than Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender...
...Lewis will have to deliver three lectures a year, judge one play and one essay contest. He has plenty of other work of his own to keep him busy. A prolific poet (ten volumes published), he also writes mystery thrillers ( The Beast Must Die, Minute for Murder) under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. He is translating the Aeneid for the BBC's Third Program, will shortly publish a long travel poem, Italian Visit...