Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louise Strong believed in a lot of things. First, she recalls, she went for the idea that every human being has a soulmate; but she never found one. Then she believed that she could crowd a thousand lives into one lifetime-to be "a North Pole explorer, a great writer, a mother of ten." She turned out to be none of these things...
...Critic V. S. Pritchett, one of Britain's best, called it simply "the only war book that has conveyed any sense of reality to me." Published now in the U.S., it conveys, unabated, a sense of quiet reality more remarkable than any American World War II writer has yet achieved...
Long ago, someone said that Beatrice Lillie was the funniest woman on the English-speaking stage. This rather sweeping pronouncement has never been challenged and, indeed, could here be extended to "the funniest woman in the world" but for this writer's early memory of a great uncle who, after a few drinks, was given to recalling in glorious terms a little entertainer in Kenya who was once very funny with her Swahili monologues. In case this worthy woman is still alive, and out of respect to my uncle, I'll only go so far as to say that there...
Alan Barth, Nieman Fellow at the University and Washington Post writer, has been awarded a $100 special prize for "distinguished editorial writing," the American Newspaper Guild announced yesterday. Barth is one of eight journalists who received awards yesterday...
Saved by Disloyalty. "It does seem to me," says Graham Greene in Why Do I Write? (just published in Britain by Percival Marshall), "that one privilege [the writer] can claim, in common perhaps with" his fellow human beings, but possibly with greater safety, is that of disloyalty ... I belong to a group, the Catholic Church, which would present me with grave problems as a writer if I were not saved by my disloyalty ... There are leaders of the Church who regard literature as a means to one end, edification. That end may be of the highest value, of far higher...