Word: isherwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WORLD IN THE EVENING (301 pp.)-Christopher Isherwood-Random House...
What the hero has to forgive himself is the crack-up of two marriages. What the reader will have to forgive Author Christopher Isherwood is a second-rate novel that sounds no more than an echo to the stories Isherwood told better in Goodbye to Berlin and Prater Violet...
...Author Isherwood's prose still has the crisp grace of a good tennis match. He is an exterior decorator of chic and competence, whether the setting is Athens, the Alps, or the South of France. But by now he has splashed all the water out of his stagnant, neurotic pool and seems more and more like his hero-a high-and-dry orphan of the Saxophone...
...productions. Among the foreign writers to whom HDC gave first American productions were Maeterlinck, Guitry, Galsworthy, Cocteau, and A. A. Milne. The club also went out of its way to produce unusual native plays like John Dos Passos' The Moon is a Gong in 1925 and Auden and Isherwood's Dog Beneath the Skin in 1936. During this time the HDC had no theater to work with, moving its productions all over the area from Sanders and Brattle Hall to Worcester's Horticultural Hall and the Boston Academy of Music. But perhaps the most unique setting was the hall...
...freedom," explains Editor Kristol. "or preferably both together, will be the hub of the magazine." In its first issue, Encounter prints articles, fiction and poetry by writers from six countries, including the unpublished diaries of Virginia Woolf, essays by France's Albert Camus and British-born Christopher Isherwood, poetry by C. Day Lewis and Edith Sitwell. Among future contributors of articles and fiction for the magazine: Arthur Koestler, Bertrand Russell, W. H. Auden, Aldous