Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Left, by Writer-Producer Mark Hellinger, to his widow, Gladys Glad, and their two adopted children: the bulk of his estate, estimated at more than $250,000. To his secretary, two friends, and his mother-in-law: $2,000 each...
...Cecil Kellaway), plagued by deathbed conscience, leaves a million dollars to a secretary (Joyce Reynolds) who believes that life is just like all the movies she sees. She knows, accordingly, that money is the root of all evil, and will spoil her marriage with Robert Hutton, a bitter young writer. As it turns out, he is thoroughly satisfied; but she can't believe it and hurries off to Reno. Best idea in the picture: the husband becomes a national hero among men, a national monster among women, by demanding alimony...
...rock-solid, almost primitive spokesman of the American people, whose novels are a grandiose articulation of their own vague, subterranean but insistent attitudes towards the puzzles of human life, and whose writing absorbed the textures, aromas, frustrations, daydreams and tragedies of America with an amplitude unequaled by any writer since Whitman...
Ludicrous & Loving. Ready to grant most of the criticisms made of Wolfe, he admits that "no other important modern writer has appeared so often naive, extravagant, maudlin, ludicrous." But the strength of Wolfe's novels lies in their deep and loving evocation of significant segments of U.S. life; Thomas Wolfe's "image is the great national myth, the American Dream." No one else has so vividly rendered the inner tensions of ordinary, unintellectual small-town Americans-and done so in the traditional rolling phrases of the American declamatory style which Wolfe inherited from Whitman and Melville...
...line" is required in writing of all kinds. Children's Writer Mikhalkov, who has been honored by publication in Pravda, wrote a popular fable about a Russian "piggy" who travels abroad and returns "a full grown swine . . . so like a foreign swine himself, that even to compose this fable is disgusting...