Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the death of a writer who made universal poetry of the life of Spain. A number of translators have tried to reproduce his quality in English, and though Poet Spender and his collaborator have scarcely succeeded, they have at least picked some good poems to make the effort on. Among these lyrics are several as frighteningly alive as the jet from an artery...
...Dickens to ask for the vacant job. The novelist took a quick look at the sketches and shook his head. "Had it not been for that unfortunate blight which came over my artistical existence," declared William Makepeace Thackeray many years later, "I should have tried to be not a writer, but a painter or designer of pictures...
...criticism, by Kenneth Koch ad Robert Hunter. Now, with a well-balanced issue, there is no need to say nice things about these lost. Of course the fiction has its flaws, but they are the same kind of shortcomings that can be found in the works of any good writer, not the puerile once generally found in college literary magazines. The excellence of this issue may be due to its inevitable growth, or it may be just an accident. Give a burnt offering that it is not the latter...
...writer-photographer team that has recently returned from a study of the Russian people spoke Soff-the-record? to the Nieman Fellows last night in Boston...
...writer-photographer team, whose series of articles on conditions in Russia will begin shortly in the New York Herald Tribune, will address the Fellows in an "off the record" session. The only outside guests will be a few college professors...