Word: willa
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Died. Elizabeth Bowen, 73, Irish novelist whose sensitive tales of young girls awakening to the reality of adulthood (The Death of the Heart, The House in Paris) earned her comparison with Virginia Woolf and Willa Gather; of lung cancer; in London. Descended from Irish gentry dating back to the age of Cromwell, Bowen moved to England as a child, briefly studied art, then found her forte during the '20s as a writer. Among her best books was The Heat of the Day, an account of life in London during World...
...rigorously simple and familiar saga, The Emigrants is made eloquent through the tone and the telling. Director Jan Troell gives life and substance to what Willa Cather called "the precious, the incommunicable past." Indeed, at its best, The Emigrants has the same feeling for landscape and incident (a man proud of a pair of new black boots, a death and burial at sea) that glistens in Cather's best work...
...husbands' credentials alone: all the other women distinguished themselves by their ideas and actions--in the arts, in the sciences, in religion and reform, in business and philanthropy. The biographers are noted scholars themselves--Anne Firor Scott on Jane Addams, Allan Nevins on Jessie Benton Fremont, Leon Edel on Willa Cather and Alice James...
Wallace Stegner shares with Willa Gather what Edmund Wilson once called "two currents of profound feeling-one for the beauty of those lives lived out between the sky and the prairie; the other for the pathos of the human spirit making the effort to send down its roots and to flower in that barren soil." In this book, Stegner rides both currents...
...caustic, illusionless side of Miss Porter that pervades much of this collection of essays, reviews, asides and letters. Only a few well-made literary essays-on Thomas Hardy, Eudora Welty, Willa Gather-reflect morning freshness and intelligence at high noon...