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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gossip in Good Taste. The ablest U.S. disciple of Henry James and Edith Wharton in many a year is a 34-year-old Manhattan lawyer named Louis Auchincloss. His special world is inhabited by New York's oldest and richest families. He writes as an insider, and his tools are accuracy and compassion. But he takes his rich so much for granted that he never makes them a fraction as interesting as a wide-eyed outsider could, e.g., F. Scott Fitzgerald or John O'Hara...
...copies. Many young writers seemed to be aiming for the popular market and making a botch of it, or trying to build novels out of private despairs and ending by being precious bores. For the first time since it was set up in 1922, the Harper Prize ($10,000, richest in the U.S.) was not awarded. Of the 599 manuscripts considered, only two were judged even worth publishing...
...Going carried his stamp only lightly. But Concluding (published with Caught in the last week of 1950) was a fine original novel about youth and old age, written in a style close to poetry and filled with insights into human incongruities. Joyce Gary proved again that he has the richest comic sense among living writers in English. His Mister Johnson, the story of a young African clerk who wanted too much from life, was just about the most satisfying novel of the U.S. year, though first published in England in 1939. Nancy Mitford's gift for cultivated malice came...
...Diggings. Why hasn't U.S. copper output bounced upward like steel and aluminum? The fact that even a giant like Anaconda needs the promise of a Government subsidy gives part of the answer. Like the rest of the copper industry, Anaconda has mined its richest ores, left little but high-cost ore in the ground. A hundred years ago, mined ore in the U.S. averaged 20% copper; now it averages less than...
...Amory maintains, is by process of elimination. Lynch, MacNamara, Foley, and Sullivan are not competent legislators, he feels. If anyone has the idea that the CCA is on the side of the rich, Amory maintains, he need only look at one of the Association's opposition, Lynch, perhaps the richest man in Cambridge. "On the other hand," Amory added, "MacNamara must get his $4000 yearly salary from the City Council or he would starve, but I think he would keep the City Manager in office if it came to a vote...