Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve years, sometimes collaborating with his writer wife, Verna Arvey ("she takes over where I fail to function"), he has toiled away on the composition of seven operas. A slight, sloe-eyed man whose hobby is turning out toys for his two children, he even fashioned miniature sets for his operas in his Los Angeles home. Some of the operas he junked as not good enough, but he saved four. A few years ago, the Metropolitan turned down his favorite, Troubled Island, with a libretto by Negro Poet Langston Hughes, because it called for something the Met couldn...
Once S. S. explained the secret of his success: "There never was anyone whom I was afraid to ask to write for me." One popular writer, Poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, stood fast for a while: he said he would be neither "lured nor McClured." Eventually McClure...
Father Shaw's notes on the Shavian infancy are included in George Bernard's own latest book, bits & pieces of autobiography called Sixteen Self Sketches. In Days With Bernard Shaw, Stephen Winsten, a writer and lecturer who lives next door to Shaw in Hertfordshire, gives an excellent record of their neighborly conversations over recent years. Fabian Essays, written 60 years ago by Shaw, Sidney Webb and others (and now re-issued with a new essay by Shaw himself) links up the years between. There is little of Shaw the playwright in these books, but much of Shaw...
Someone else did. And thereby hangs the tale told in Descent into Hell by Charles Williams (TIME, Nov. 8), perhaps the most remarkable English mystical writer since William Blake, a man whose life and work have had strong influence in the religious thinking of such leading British intellectuals as T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis and Dorothy Sayers...
...following communication was received in the mail early this week. The excellence of both the writer's style and the points made, it was felt, warranted more than the usual letter space. The editors therefore, decided to print the communications under this heading...