Word: titan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hired by Hollywood to write a film story for an ice skater was ponderous Theodore Dreiser, 71. The New York Post reported, in the past tense: "Theodore Dreiser . . . was a titan ... he was one of the favored modern authors. . . . In 1925 he published An American Tragedy, a major work...
...sides). A puzzler even to musical savants of the 1820s, the granite-surfaced "grand fugue" which Beethoven composed as a finale to his String Quartet B Flat so irritated audiences that his publisher persuaded him to write a simpler finale, issue his pet fugue separately. Now recognized as a titan among fugues, it comes to life eloquently, pulsingly in the first album of Violinist Adolf Busch's reorganized chamber musicians, who made their U.S. debut earlier this year (TIME, March...
...Hollywood. Last week, for a change, two books came out of Hollywood. Both carry identical counsel for the U. S. citizen on identical subjects: Defense, Democracy and World War II. America Is Worth Saving is a spiteful, wretchedly written tract by great, aging Theodore Dreiser (The Titan, An American Tragedy), who lives in Hollywood, lectures to California's women's clubs. The Remarkable Andrew might well be Dreiser's tract scripted into a novel by its author, Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo...
Dullest of sport events is shot-putting. On a track-meet program, it is usually an incidental diversion while running races are being staged. This year, however, the shot-put has thudded into more general attention due to a Titan named Al Blozis...
...athletic co-discoverer (with Husband Jean Frédèric Joliot) of synthetic radioactivity (see cut, p. 29). But never to elegant Daughter Eve whose brilliant biography Madame Curie was a smash seller all over the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 13, 1937). Eve is no more a scientific titan than Mrs. Roosevelt. She is, however, just about as articulate, effective, and well-acquainted all over the world as her White House hostess and considerably better dressed. On the day after break of war, that smart novelist & playwright Jean Giraudoux, now French Information Minister, with sure instinct chose smart...