Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looks as though the well made narrative novel is breaking up," said Thornton Wilder in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Mr. Wilder lectured last night at the Copley Plaza...
...When Mr. Wilder was asked about "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" and his literary plans for the future, the author said, "The book was written between the duties of a teacher at a preparatory school in Lawrenceville, New Jersey under the growing feeling that its subject matter and the catastrophe of the opening page would forever cut it off from a wide circle of friends. At present I have finished about a quarter of a work to be entitled "The Woman of Andros," my first novel--in the sense that the others were collections of novelettes. The new book...
...response to a question as to what steps a young author should take to acquire style, Mr. Wilder said. "Style is a by-product of personality, and in my opinion nothing can harm the notation of one's personality, which is style, so much as the technical study of organization, paragraphing, periodic sentences, and specific details. The technical side of style should be learned almost unconsciously on the tide of one's tremendous nourishing enthusiasm for certain authors of one's own choice
Boston is admittedly a good sports town. For years the city has supported with unfailing faith and loyalty two of the lowliest baseball teams which the major leagues have every held over a long period of time. There is no place in America that goes wilder over hockey Football games and boxing matches draw crowds more enthusiastic than those of larger cities, and the annual fixtures in tennis, golf, and track and field are noted on every social calendar...
Amos Parker Wilder, 67, father of Thornton Niven (Bridge of San Luis Rey) Wilder, retired last week as associate editor of the New Haven Journal-Courier...