Word: zola
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...Dwyer of Hopkinton and Dudley; James M. Fitzgibbons of Duxbury and Massachusetts; Seymour Goldstaub of West New York, New Jersey and Weld; Peter S. Hearst of Palatine, III. and Massachusetts; Richard M. Oehmler of Pittsburgh and Hollis; J. Brock Stokes of Nashville, Tenn, and Hollis; and Irving K. Zola of Mattapan and Thayor...
...Brooks brought to a close, in The Confident Years, the most comprehensive literary history of the U.S., and Edmund Wilson, in The Shores of Light, produced the most readable book of literary criticism. A model of balanced critical estimate in small compass was English Novelist Angus Wilson's Zola...
...France they were portrayed as "peace partisans," condemned because they opposed Washington plans to war on Russia. In Italy they were "Gli Innocenti" (The Innocents), whose two young children (5 and 9) would be made orphans, and Rome's Communist L'Unitá compared them to Dreyfus, Zola, Sacco and Vanzetti, and John Brown...
...again in a series of 20 long novels about the Rougon-Macquart, in which all the main characters were the legitimate and illegitimate descendants of one oversexed farm wench. For his series he invented a new ism, based on close, pessimistic observation of mankind, and called it Naturalism. But Zola no more believed in Naturalism than he did in God, Wilson concludes. The important thing was this: "I, I alone will be Naturalism...
...striking workmen, and La Terre, a brutal epic of farm life. For 25 years, as his books peddled the "black poetry" of pessimism and garbled heredity under the name of hard fact, men of state and men of letters rose to protest-but not to much avail-that Zola was lying. Millions read Zola's books...