Word: steinbeck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Retorted Robert Charbonneau, Montreal writer and publisher: "Let the facts talk. If Americans do not like literature, how then explain the success of writers like Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Thomas Wolfe, Eugene O'Neill...
...John Steinbeck developed his story from a Mexican fishermen's tale, and it was filmed in Mexico. As a fable of man's hope, it has a great deal of beauty, even elements of greatness; as material for a moving picture-a story to be expressively told in terms of visible action-it is close to perfect. Unfortunately this fine poetic idea is handled much too "poetically." The characters talk too much and their dialogue, pseudo-biblical in style, constantly undermines their believableness as people...
Once again last week, O'Brady's modest talent enchanted Paris. Her art needed no guide; her portraits were recognizable. Among her sitters: Jack-of-Arts Jean Cocteau, Poet Paul Eluard, and John Steinbeck (who urged her to return to the U.S. and paint American workmen...
...sharpen his news, splashy pictures-occasionally nudes-and sassy headlines decorate it, personality angles and impious gibes at national heroes help sell it. And a racy Gallic sauce-far hotter than anything U.S. tabloids dare dish out-flavors it. For balance-or to confuse the reader-Corre has printed Steinbeck on Russia, and serialized such books as Mr. Adam...
...permanent foreign correspondents cooped up in Moscow, have the world's worst sense of public relations. "The Embassy people and the [regular] correspondents feel alone, feel cut off, they are island people in the midst of Russia, and it is no wonder that they become lonely and bitter," Steinbeck wrote. "But if it had been part of our job to report news as they must, then ... we too could never have left Moscow...