Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...account of a Princeton week end to an introduction to Pushkin's poetry. Not a unified book like his Axel's Castle, The Triple Thinkers includes a slightly heavy discourse on verse technique, but to compensate for that it has more of the U. S. literary scene than Wilson's previous writing, and it contains two brilliant essays, one on the ambiguity of Henry James which is the most searching study of James that has appeared; one on the critic and reformer, John Jay Chapman, which powerfully evokes the confusion of pre-War U. S. intellectual life...
...longer play the role in the professions of a trained and public-spirited caste: the new society did not recognize them." As is usual in Wilson's writing, his most penetrating insights are incorporated into the body of his writing, so unaccented and interwoven with descriptions of scene that casual readers may not recognize the observation that has gone into them. But even casual readers must be impressed at the way Wilson combines artful characterizations of scholars, homely, humorous details of their households, with lucid statements of the problems with which they grapple; be even more impressed...
...five playwrights stand almost at the top of the U. S. theatre; only Eugene O'Neill in drama and George S. Kaufman in comedy rate higher. Four of the five have won the Pulitzer Prize: Howard for They Knew What They Wanted (1925), Rice for Street Scene (1929), Anderson for Both Your Houses (1933), Sherwood for Idiot's Delight...
Harvard sends 12 delegates representing the Netherlands and Australia to join the 400 sent by 35 other colleges to this 12th assembly of the League. Original plans will be changed by resolutions at the opening congress to permit the group to discuss aspects of the European scene which have appeared in the past week. Whether to seat the Austrian and Spanish Rebel delegations are problems of procedure which confront the assembly today...
...story is told in the person of Bayard. As the scene opens, he is a boy of twelve, and the style is juvenile. As the novel progresses, the style becomes more mature, and the final result is the rich and colorful prose characteristic of Faulkner's previous works. This book should take its place as a worthy successor to Absalom, Absalom...