Word: reworks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel when his lifelong colleagues were sentenced to death in the Moscow trials? What did he say when his treaty partner, Hitler, attacked Russia? No one in a position to speak freely knows, and until such questions are answered, all a biographer can do is to rework the public record. Biographer Deutscher, an ex-Communist who now writes for British weeklies, has done this with taste and scholarship. Though less exciting and brilliant than Trotsky's acrid biography of Stalin, Deutscher's book is more reliable and objective...
...strongly enough plugged. Some critics have objected that the sitters are not aristocratic enough; one letter flatly comments on the "common-looking" individuals portrayed. Rockwell himself says: "I put everything I had into them, but they could all stand more work." He wants especially to rework Freedom of Worship and Freedom from Want. The latter is perhaps weakest: Rockwell's acquaintance with want is decidedly impersonal...
Others thought that after the typical Fitzgerald ending of Fitzgerald's life, a Fitzgerald novel reworked by somebody else might come as something of an anticlimax. They wondered who could rework it anyway. Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust), Fitzgerald's great & good friend, for whose literary recognition he generously pled in his introduction to the Modern Library edition of The Great Gatsby, was dead too. At the home of Nathanael West and his wife, Eileen McKenney, Fitzgerald attended his last party (and his first in many a day) on Friday, Dec. 13. Day after Fitzgerald died...