"... the has to tell his story entirely in the present tense. We must allow him a certain license in foreshortening changes in human beings which in order to be true to life require the passage of time."
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Literary criticsUniversity of Cambridge alumniJournalists from EnglandTheatre criticsFellows of the Royal Society of Literature
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Desmond MacCarthy
Sir (20 May 1877 – 7 June 1952) was a British journalist, literary and drama critic, and literary editor. He was knighted in 1951.
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