Word: scribner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FALLING HILLS by Perry Lentz. 468 pages. Scribner...
...young man named Ernest Hemmingway, who lives in Paris & has a brilliant future. Ezra Fount published a collection of his short pieces. I havn't it hear now but its remarkable & I'd look him up right away." Fitzgerald's letter was filed away at Charles Scribner's Sons in Manhattan, along with the publishing house's correspondence with hundreds of other authors, including George Santayana, Edith Wharton, Rudyard Kipling and that bright young man Hemingway. Last week Charles Scribner Jr. announced that his firm was donating the archives of its 121 years...
...INIQUITY by Pamela Hansford Johnson. 142 pages. Scribner...
Twachtman, who studied in Munich and Paris, returned to relative obscurity in the U.S., averaged only $500 a painting. To raise his family, Twachtman had to paint yards of sky on the cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg in Chicago, sketch for Scribner's magazine, and teach. It left a bitter taste. He told students: "You are studying art here now, and some of you will become painters, and a few of you will do distinguished work, and then the American public will turn you down for second-and third-rate French painters...
BEHIND THE GOLDEN CURTAIN, by Susan Cooper (244 pages; Scribner; $4.95), contends that American affluence and self-sufficiency have created a Golden Curtain that splits the West in half just as surely as the Iron Curtain divides it from the East. This, the author contends, permits Americans to go their merry, uncomprehending way while the rest of the world lives in ignorance of what the U.S. is really like. Americans, she says, suffer from an excess of earnestness, are deplorably fundamentalistic in religion, too insular, too prone to look for Reds under beds, and are basically anti-intellectual. Furthermore, Goldwaterism...