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Presbyopia Solemnizations. Midcult authors, writes Macdonald, exploit the discoveries of avant-garde authors. Thus, their works have an apparent profundity when they are only pretentious. Macdonald's favorite Midcult writers include Pearl Buck, John Steinbeck, JP. Marquand, Archibald MacLeish, and even Ernest Hemingway, or at least much of his writing. His prize examples of Midcult are James Gould Cozzens' novel By Love Possessed, with its convoluted prose and jawbreaking Latinisms like "solemnization" and "presbyopic," and Thornton Wilder's Our Town, with its fuzzy philosophizing: "There's something way down deep that's eternal about every...
...Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (2) 2. Silent Spring, Carson (1) 3. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (3) 4. Final Verdict, St. Johns (6) 5. My Life in Court, Nizer (4) 6. The Points of My Compass, White (8) 7. Letters from the Earth, Twain (7) 8. The Rothschilds, Morton (5) 9. The Blue Nile, Moorehead (9) 10. The Pyramid Climbers, Packard...
...Travels with Charley, Steinbeck...
...heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence," said Author John Steinbeck 60. "But I am impelled not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession." Perhaps it was the fact that he stood on the Stockholm rostrum with five scientists (one American, four British) or perhaps it was just the old itch to shock. But at the end of his acceptance speech Steinbeck took the occasion to suggest a small revision...
...beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God." So began the author of St John's Gospel, in a classic Christian definition of God the father's eternal coexistence with his son. Last week Novelist John Steinbeck, in Stockholm to accept his Nobel Prize for literature, suggested a new gospel to match the beliefs and ambitions of modern...