Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William C. Barnard, Associated Press staff writer, described how scores of bodies are stacked on benches and tables in a mid-town garage and in a nearby high school gymnasium...
...Religion [TIME, March 17], your writer discusses the new book by the Very Rev. Martin Cyril D'Arcy, S.J., The Mind and Heart of Love. He refers to "agape (the selfless Christian love for one's neighbor, which Paul called 'charity' . . .)." Of course, St. Paul didn't call it "charity" at all; he spoke Greek and called it "agape...
...course your writer may agree with the conservative British churchman who is reputed to have said: "If the King James version was good enough for St. Paul, it's good enough...
...prefer-what you call-escape." Because escapist literature is Hollywood's meat, her new novel, House of Mist (Farrar Straus, $2.75), was a natural mouthful (at $125,000) for Producer Hal Wallis. Even without book royalties Author Bombal's literary take is tops for a Latin American writer...
...writer has ever gone so far with so little talent as Indiana-born Theodore Dreiser. His famous novels (Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy) laid bare the seamy side of life with a bumbling crudity and literary formlessness that often alienated critics and readers alike. But he had the sincerity of a dedicated social worker and the naive, sentimental garrulousness of a kindly, troubled country neighbor. They brought him an audience and a place in U.S. literary history...