Word: writer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Humorist James Thurber once of E. B. (for Elwyn Brooks) White, the lucid essayist whose weekly wit led off The New Yorker for years before he deserted Manhattan to write on a farm in Maine. From Thurber it was high praise, and it spoke another truth: behind every writer stands a teacher of some kind. Behind E. B. White himself, it turns out, stands the exhortative ghost of a curious and delightful man, the late Professor William Strunk Jr., proprietor of English 8 at Cornell University when White passed through 40 years...
...Bridge on the Drina, by Ivo Andric. An elegiac novel by a fine Yugoslav writer distills 300 years of his land's history in an account of the idlers and warriors who passed over a beautiful stone bridge...
...China) to the State Department for approval. What's more, Harriman had brought along a collaborator almost as impressive: Charles W. Thayer, brother-in-law of ex-U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles E. Bohlen and himself a career diplomat (including four years in Russia) turned freelance writer (Bears in the Caviar, The Unquiet Germans). Thayer's job was to act as combination guide and ghost...
...shaken. We hadn't expected that the links with traditional culture should be so tenuous." When asked what books they read, the scientists said: " 'Well, I've tried a bit of Dickens,' rather as though Dickens were an extraordinarily esoteric, tangled and dubiously rewarding writer...
Points of View, by W. Somerset Maugham. In his latest last book, the writer, who ages like fine brandy, rambles thoughtfully about miscellaneous topics...