Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts appear at last to be accessible about this strange, heroic figure. Mr. Steuart does not slur over his defects. He sets down the facts accurately but sympathetically, substitutes for the idol a man. His estimate of Stevenson's work is careful and just. He sees him as a writer not of the first rank?a master of the English language, doing perfectly things of secondary significance. But whatever his merits as an artist, as a man he stands among the heroes...
Running into Bernard Shaw, the clergyman learns that he is "our churchman, our most extraordinary writer and in some very vital respects our most extraordinary...
...Editor's note: The writer of the above communication, whose name is withheld by request, is the wife of a prominent Harvard graduate and sister of a member of the Yale football team...
...seven Fellows should not be a Catholic. The whole theory of representative government justifies such a choice. Furthermore, Catholics have been known who possessed great abilities. Governor Smith of New York is no worse governor for being a Catholic, nor is G. K. Chesterton a worse writer because of his religion. No religion contains all the intellect of the world many its members...
Comment on the article was not very general on Saturday as but few had had the opportunity to read the Advocate. Mr. Briggs, when intreviewed, said that he disliked the vindictive attitude of the writer but that all criticism was always to be welcomed. "The Library Council", he said, "is the group to which to appeal for any change in rule and it will give any such appeal its intelligent consideration...