Word: wellsians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PROFESSOR HAGGARD has written his history of the world--and viewing the world from the eyes of one predominantly interested in the position of the medicine man and the status of medicine in society it is a very interesting work. It makes no Wellsian pretensions at all-inclusiveness but strives rather to strike the high and essential points in the development of medicine through the ages to its present state. Dr. Haggard is not cramped by a sketchy knowledge of history, his facts are ever accurate and his general views concise and well-grounded. From Imhotep who started the ball...
...Autobiographer Wells denies that he is a dual personality but admits having a persona, an idea of himself somewhat at variance with the humdrum facts. Of late his persona has been a little under the weather. To get his persona back on its feed he has written this highly Wellsian Experiment in Autobiography...
...stood for exciting tales-plausible narrations of improbable happenings. Last week readers who had encountered Author Wells only as a compiler of outlines-of-knowledge or a pamphleteering old World Conspirator, had a good chance to make his acquaintance as a young man. And every faithful and once-faithful Wellsian was glad that these early tales (The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, The Food of the Gods, In the Days of the Comet} had been reissued, looked forward to recapturing the excitement...
...advanced" mother, Theodore was born into an artistic, late-1890-ish world, soon took on the protective coloration of his environment. When he met Professor Broxted's children, Teddy and Margaret, he became aware of Science. From then on it was one long discussion, foaming with excitable Wellsian phrases and figures of speech. The children grew up, moved to London, argued in restaurants. Theodore was introduced to some real facts of life by one Rachel Bernstein, but he fell in love with Margaret, continued to argue with her. But the real influence in Theodore's life...
Author Herbert George Wells, onetime first-class novelist and short-story writer, is now propagandist perennial. Lately his novel-pamphlets have preached the necessity of peace. The Autocracy of Mr. Parham, besides much Wellsian argumentation many Wellsian men of straw, gives Author Wells's parable of what will happen to the world if old-fashioned people remain in control of it. Few present-day Wells readers will be surprised that the story proper begins on Page 90, that all before that is argument, exposition, setting the text...