Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...natural and sincere way when She turns up in the temples and tombs of Egypt and among the gods of Hindustan-Hallo, Mary! For you really cannot get away from Her . . . She favours Brother Bernardo with special revelations and smiles at his delighted 'Hallo, Mary!' When I write a play like The Simpleton and have to deal with divinity in it She jogs my elbow at the right moment and whispers 'Now Brother B. don't forget...
...enough careers to fill a lifetime. During World War II he hopped between government agencies, spent a term as special assistant to Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. In 1945 he became counsel to the Senate Special Committee on Atomic Energy. With the late Senator Brien McMahon, Newman helped write the key bill that placed atomic development under civilian control. Since the war he has been a magazine editor (Scientific American, the New Republic) and a visiting lecturer in law at Yale. Sometimes controversial and always spectacular wherever he goes, Newman was once described as a "remarkably fissionable personality...
Says Anthologist Newman (coauthor with Edward Kasner of Mathematics and the Imagination, a 1940 bestseller): "I'm dumbfounded at the reception the books have got. I don't write for a living. I wrote these books because I enjoyed doing it and, I suppose, because I wanted to hear myself talk-which is every author's reason for writing. The World of Mathematics is a very good book, but the fact that it's selling so well is really unrelated to the quality of the book-up to now, at least, because all that people have...
...seems to me that it would be unwise to write off this revival as lacking significance. At least to an Englishman, something of real importance seems to be happening-though we may not know precisely what...
...worry professionally about the state of the world, Historian Russell Kirk does not much like the shape of things. In The Conservative Mind (TIME, July 6, 1953), he made it plain that American conservatives had found a gifted and sorely needed spokesman. He is young (37), he can write hardhitting prose, he is not ashamed to range himself on the side of God, custom and character, and he believes strongly in such old-fashioned virtues as duty and responsibility. His book of essays, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, ranges in subject matter from censorship to the ugliness of British welfare...