Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realistic observation meet-or, more frequently, collide; where characters are a little more than exploited but a great deal less than explained. Atmospherically, the whole thing benefits from a certain warmheartedness; as a human being, Playwright Berg shows her characters a respect that she withholds from them as a writer. But what's worst about her as a writer-what makes her play first commonplace and then dull-is that...
Retorted Robert Charbonneau, Montreal writer and publisher: "Let the facts talk. If Americans do not like literature, how then explain the success of writers like Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Thomas Wolfe, Eugene O'Neill...
Voyage Surprise (French). Writer Jacques Prévert (Children of Paradise') and Director Pierre, his brother, following René Clair, use their highly sophisticated talents on the style perfected in the old Mack Sennett and Chaplin comedies. The story: a slap-happy cross-country French tour, complicated by saboteurs, stolen crown jewels, and burlesqued pursuers. The picture has an air of reckless and generally happy improvisation. It fails to develop and pay off its comic points brilliantly enough, but it is thoroughly enjoyable...
...frustration whose misery Madame Vallentin, engrossed in her psychological analyses, does not seem to appreciate. He was ugly, and so he was the butt of the brilliant nobility, and a burden to his father who was at first ashamed of him and then, as Mirabeau developed as a writer, jealous...
...doubt The Common Chord will be belittled by those who mistake lugubriousness for seriousness and who dismiss O'Connor as a minor writer unworthy of his master, Joyce. But to write a work of minor stature as well as O'Connor does is in itself a kind of triumph all too rare...