Word: writer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Historic Error? "We are now in grave danger of being a permanent outsider as far as Europe is concerned," warned a letter writer to the Daily Telegraph recently, and the Economist noted last week, after De Gaulle's press conference in Paris, that "the British government cannot but have been painfully reminded how completely, for the moment, the power to influence events in continental Europe has been taken from its hands...
...Fair. Charles A. Fenton, Assistant Professor of English at Yale, hailed the New Haven production in the pages of the Nation as a "moving and exciting play" notable for its "superb craftsmanship." "J.B., it's a pleasure to report, is good theatre and a fine display of a writer of genuine intellectual substance who has nevertheless always remembered and created emotion." But to Professor Fenton it represented even more than that: "To the literary historian J.B. is a fruitful document, reminding us by its vibrancy and courage of the achievement of American literature in the past half-century...
...primarily a writer, not a teacher," MacLeish said, "but I have great feeling for my attachment with the University." MacLeish, who came to Harvard in 1949, is currently in his eleventh year on the Faculty. Now 67, he reached possible retirement age two years...
...everlastingly tinkering with his psyche, so that when a San Francisco spinster named Alice Babette Toklas appeared, "soft, small, and warmly murmurous," Gertrude switched boon companions for life. The two gentle ladies from America enjoyed living in the eye of the bohemian hurricane. There was the writer André Salmon, who foamed at the mouth with delirium (he later claimed it was soap) and nibbled the trimmings on Alice Toklas' hat. There was Alfred Jarry, an absinthe-minded playwright who carried a revolver and once shot down "some obstreperous nightingales." Oddest of all was Gerald Berners, an English lord...
...Magician (Swedish). Brilliant Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman's latest brew of symbolism...