Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NEEDS NO DEFENSE FROM ME BUT I WRITE TO SUGGEST A LADDER BE PLACED ALONGSIDE MR. KROCK'S IVORY TOWER IN THE HOPE
...Pied Piper of the ship. His habit of pacing about a room, lecturing to his friends ("Now, my Kinder, let me tell you about . . ."), once led Theatrical Director Garson Kanin to remark: "Whenever I'm asked what college I've attended, I'm tempted to write 'Thornton Wilder.' " Over the years, Thornton Wilder College has taught a number of courses, in & out of classrooms. His latest course: what it is to be an American...
...Havenites often see him striding about the town, reciting to himself the paragraphs that will soon be transferred verbatim to his notebooks. Like most authors, Wilder hates to write. Sometimes he plays hooky in the Yale library ("I flip through an archaeological journal and read a piece about a new excavation in Herculaneum. I even read medical journals"). He "does" Finnegan's Wake, pores over Kierkegaard, works at his hobby of dating the plays of Lope de Vega, strums on the piano, or reads a score of a Palestrina Mass. After lunch he usually takes a long nap. After...
...years and talents, he has written comparatively little. And he has enough to write about to fill those 150 years he would perhaps like to live. Even if he never writes another book or another play, however, the world in general and the U.S. in particular will certainly consider itself much obliged to Thornton Wilder...
...both feet in a grave. It was early 1942, and he had been captured by the Japanese as they slithered through Malaya like lizards, chewing up the paper-thin defenses of Britain's "naked island" fortress, Singapore. Singapore fell, but Gunner Braddon lived, not to fight but to write another day. The result is a gutty, scalp-raising account of the "war of capitulation" in Southeast Asia, and the best book of its kind since F. Spencer Chapman's The Jungle Is Neutral (TIME, Sept...