Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...edge of San José. Manuel Mora is a single man. "I was too poor to get married," he says. "Anyway, I wouldn't want to ask a wife to share the kind of life I lead." Daily he brought his problems to grey-haired Carmen Lyra, a writer of children's books, who sat in her book-lined front parlor and dished out the rocking-chair Communist advice that Mora has followed for years...
...writing center would not be an intangible thing; Harvard certainly needs no new buildings for this purpose, and probably no more than the six courses offered in the 1948-49 catalogue, although an increase in the number of sections of English Ala is desirable. The young writer-teachers, who are the backbone of the department's staff, will have to be offered sufficient inducements in tenure and chance of advancement so that they will not leave for the West at the first opportunity. The awarding of five-year professorships and Briggs-Copeland Instructorships to several writing teachers in the last...
...vicar with his story. Within a fortnight he had several hundred letters to take to the police. Burly Storekeeper Richard Knightly Storm boasted of having got his first 15 years ago: "You felt out in the cold if you hadn't received one." Relieved villagers gave the anonymous writer a jeering name: "The Big Baby...
...nameless, irrational fear which is being artificially induced by irresponsible newspapers and Washington politicians is causing a gradual disappearance of civil liberties in this country, according to writer Carey Mc Williams, speaker at a Channing Foundation lecture Saturday night...
...story, Howard Lindsay's "Breakbands," has the merits of extreme economy and good visual detail, but the author tries so hard to imitate bad Hemingway that his work becomes artificial and almost unbearable. The long, casually connected sentences and the nonsyllabie tough talk do not seem to suit the writer, though his talent is obvious. Besides this story, there is a kind of dialogue called "O The Dangers of Daily Living," which satirizes, not wholly successfully, cocktail party conversation. It also contains some symbolism, but the piece doesn't seem to be worth the trouble of unravelling. The back pages...