Word: pseudonymous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...priests should read it so they may have an exact sense of sin." The parcel was intended to prejudice academicians against electing the man who had written the book's preface. Jean Paulhan, 78, and who is widely suspected of having written the novel himself under a pseudonym. A grand mandarin of French letters, Paulhan is director of the influential Nouvelle Revue Française. "Even to set the covers of L'Histoire d'O ajar is to open the gates of hell," said Academician François Mauriac. Nevertheless, enough members were inclined to open...
...would never have submitted You Can Always Tell a Harvard Man to a publisher. I would have kept it within the privacy of my own family. And if I had submitted the book (and by God I wouldn't!) I would have disguised the fact by contriving a pseudonym (yes, Josiah is my real name but my friends call me Lee). Because let's face it: Bissell's book is as outrageously written as the scrawlings in the Lamont Library johns. Got that, you guys...
...Mysterious Book Bag" CRIMSON begins its presentation of Swiss's chilling serial The Circle of Seven. H. Lewiss is the pseudonym assistant professor of English Harvard who began this venture into fiction as a diversion from his studies of the Jacobean theater. Further episodes of The Circle of Seven will appear regularly in issues of the REVIEW and in inserts in the daily paper...
Whores & Hangmen. Already noted for a brilliant satirical novel on Communism. The Trial Begins (TIME, Oct. 3, 1960). the author who hides behind the pseudonym Abram Tertz has been variously reported to be a professor in a Russian university, a prominent Russian novelist, or Poet Yesenin-Volpin himself. In his new work (Pantheon; $2.95). he lashes out against the state-dictated code of "socialist realism," which reduces authors to mere copywriters of Communist propaganda, beholden to "Purpose with a capital P." Writes Tertz: "A poet not only writes poems, but helps, in his own way, to build Communism...
Bricks for Jade. On the eve of the introduction of the commune system, Li Fu-chun warned that the economy was getting lopsided. Now, he said, there should be concentration on the farm problem. He was strongly supported by his fellow economists. One of them, hiding behind a pseudonym, wrote ominously: "We may gain heavy industry only to lose Man; we may even lose Man without gaining heavy industry...