Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, behind the doors of Room 318, the Administration's formal rebuttal began. Clad in civilian dress and the civilian authority of Secretary of Defense, stern-faced General of the Army George Marshall appeared to testify...
...stories are written in a firm, never brilliant, always individual style. In the sudden bite of his insights, Storyteller Stern somewhat suggests Chekhov, but Chekhov with his back teeth pulled. He bites, but he doesn't chew his ideas as fine as they deserve...
...LOVED (234 pp.) -James Stern-Harcourt, Brace...
...Britain, where craftsmanlike novelists are almost as common as rooks at a mowing, careful readers watch for a rarer bird-the writer of first-rate short stories. In 1932 a fine specimen came along. James Stern, a young Irishman, published some stories about South Africa, where he had lived for a while, in a book called The Heartless Land. In 1938 he brought out another collection, Something Wrong. British critics had high praise for both volumes; only the first was published in the U.S., in a small edition. Said Author Christopher Isherwood: "James Stern is, as far as I know...
...Loved, U.S. readers can savor seven of the best tales from Stern's earlier books, and five new ones. The flavors are keen, and of many sorts...