Word: wescott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crest, the lives of the young Americans who had transplanted themselves to Paris had three fixed points-the Dome, the Select, the Rotonde. To these world-famed cafés, at some time or other, came all American exiles: Ernest Hemingway, Elliot Paul, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, Robert Coates...
...Lawrenceville School and the University of Chicago long after he became famous. Most traditional and cloistered of novelists, he suddenly turned a somersault, became the most adventurous of playwrights. He much prefers plays to novels because of their "absence of editorial comment." He admires Authors Ernest Hemingway, Glenway Wescott, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, the late great Marcel Proust, James Joyce, can recite word for word whole pages of Joyce's Finnegans Wake...
...RALPH W. WESCOTT...
...with the wife, shows it as the intense embodiment of captive freedom, of the artist's urge, of love. By the time the day is over, the mutual crucifixion of the Irish marriage is thoroughly clear; the Irishman has made two abject, ambiguous attempts at murder; and Glenway Wescott has wrung a little more than the last drop of slantwise symbolism from the actions and the lore of the bird...
Aside from a somewhat lavender pallor of cheek which no doctor could remove, Wescott's fresh start is clean and real. It also shows that for some young writers their expatriate decade was not wasted...