Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...informed that a writer in the CRIMSON has charged me with locking the doors of my classroom against late comers. This I have never once done in my thirty-five years of teaching. Your contributor may have gained his impression from the fact that last year, with a course of 600 students, I had the assistants refuse admission to those who appeared later than seven minutes after the hour. I assume, however, that even your writer would not regard this action as unreasonable in the case of a nine o'clock class. In any event, the action involved no possible...
Brushing Off the Webbs. In less time than it takes to say Emmeline Pankhurst, Rebecca West was in London writing literary criticism on the Freewoman's staff. A year later she was a full-fledged political writer on the old Socialist Clarion, and a member of that Socialist intellectual advance guard, the Fabian Society. Its pundits, Sidney & Beatrice Webb, had her in for dinner, but "I argued with the Webbs, so I was never invited back...
...high reigned the Big Four-"The Uncles," Miss West called them in The Strange Necessity. There was Uncle John Galsworthy, Uncle H. G. Wells, Uncle Arnold Bennett and Uncle Bernard Shaw, of whom she now observes: "The trouble with Shaw is that he was a wonderful writer with nothing important to say. It's too bad he couldn't have been a Christian...
...Woman Writer. When, at the end of World War I, Rebecca West became the book critic of the New Statesman and Nation, she was already a minor celebrity. She wrote with an authority beyond her years or experience in a prose in which, at its best, a logic of music was magnificently mated to a logic of ideas. At its worst, it was excessive and overblown. Sometimes she took time out from her breadwinning chores to write a novel (Harriet Hume). Sometimes she collaborated on satirical sketches (Lions and Lambs, The Rake's Progress) with Cartoonist David...
Wystan Hugh Auden, British poet, writer, and anthologist, will give the twelfth and last lecture of the Cervantes IV Centenary Series at 8 o'clock this evening in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...