Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between his shuttling and his studying, Guerard found time to do what he enjoyed most: write fiction. He won a national fiction contest at 15, and began his first novel, The Past Must Alter, when he was a 20-year-old Harvard graduate student. As usual, he drove himself as relentlessly as possible: "I was trying to catch up on Latin, get an M.A., and write my first novel, all at the same time. And those were the days when the graduate students didn't talk to each other; it was a real battle...
...fashioned assumption which led to biographical studies of novelists," he says, "was that if you got the writer's public face and knew what he ate for breakfast, you could understand his books. But this overlooked the whole creative temperament or psyche that appears when the author begins to write the book." Guerard's own literary criticism of authors such as Gide, Conrad, and Hardy is largely an extension of this interest in the psychology of composition...
...Everybody has his own method. Some write very slowly and some in great haste. I think it is rather a good plan to get underway as quickly as you can. Fill your mind with the subject and write rapidly, then set aside what you have written and go over it later very carefully, sentence by sentence; thus you may got accuracy without stiffness. Writing sentence by sentence with minute care makes your work lose life...
...Great Sebastians, the latest starring vehicle for Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, is a theatrical halfbreed described by its authors as "a melodramatic comedy." There is nothing intrinsically bad about such a combination, but Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse give the impression that they really wanted to write either a melodrama or a comedy, but that they are uncertain about how to bring the union about. As a result, their play is neither very funny nor very exciting...
...snarl defiantly at the Supreme Court. As the self-appointed prophet of the Jim Crow forces, he has burned at white heat ever since what he terms the "calamitous action" of the Supreme Court in May 1954. Mr. Talmadge has now taken it upon himself to write a bible for his disciples. In a small volume, You and Segregation, the fiery demagogue describes the deadly sins--i.e., the Supreme Court, the NAACP, and bloc voting...