Word: virtuese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When, in his later novels, he tried to achieve a more objective and disciplined mode of expression, his writing fell flat. Restraint was not for him. The attempt to cut away his faults inevitably meant a destruction of his virtues; both poured from the same volcanic source.
Volpone (Siritzky International), rare Ben Jonson's rarest spectacle, has been somewhat simplified for the screen by Adapters Stefan Zweig and Jules Romains. In reviving Jonson in any form they have had to combat what T. S. Eliot calls a "most perfect conspiracy of approval." In the general willingness...
Many times since its rebirth last spring, the Advocate has helplessly thrown up its arms and sunk into the quicksands of adolescent as well as painfully esoteric writing, but now it seems to have arrived safely on firm, green ground. The current issue combines the magazine's previous virtues with...
Playwright St. John Ervine (rhymes with "Injun servin' ") ceases to be mild-and well-mannered-only in his irate slashing away at the younger generation (the heroine's smug sons and selfish successor); but the younger generation hits back by refusing to seem convincing. And the older generation...
War As I Knew It is not Patton's diary (kept from July 1942 to Dec. 5, 1945), but a separate book about the ETO campaigns which draws on his diary and what are referred to as "open" letters from the General to Mrs. Patton. An introductory section of...