Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think dubbing her the "world's No. 1 woman writer" is faint praise. For my money, she's the best I've seen, man or woman...
Died. Meredith Nicholson, 81, last survivor of Indiana's literary Golden Age (his late contemporaries: James Whitcomb Riley, George Ade, Booth Tarking-ton), writer of once popular novels (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men); in Indianapolis. Romancer Nicholson, who felt that "you have got to get some brains into public office," turned from literature to politics, practiced what he preached as Indianapolis city councilman, diplomat (U.S Minister to Paraguay, Venezuela, Nicaragua...
...casual, charming romantic comedy, I Know Where I'm Going. Nightmare Alley had a sardonic toughness which, to their detriment, U.S. films have almost lost. Jean Renoir made Woman on the Beach an artful blend of mood and melodrama. Delmer Daves enlarged his conspicuous promise as a writer-director with two melodramas, The Red House and The Dark Passage. Sweden's Torment was, in its first half, one of any good year's ten best...
...Writer George Reavey is a man who can write placidly about a national literature in chains. "Russian society," he writes, "has not lost the motive power of belief, and where belief is, there a measure of intolerance is bound to thrive." Even the decree that Russian detective and adventure fiction must fall into line "is understandable in so far as this sort of fiction will be largely read by the youth of the country and the state has an immediate interest in the shaping of the outlook of the younger generation...
...University. He lived in Russia from 1912 to 1918, returned there in 1942 to spend the next three years as deputy press attache at the British Embassy. Soviet Literature Today is irritatingly naive and uncritical. But it is important for what it reveals about the grisly role of the writer in a totalitarian state...