Word: aristocrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make those four stars revolve in concentric orbits, some kind of story had to be concocted including, in the above order, a combination of masculinity and dapper suavity, an untamed creature inducing and abounding in excessive primitive passion, a dim-witted but competent piece of virility, and a chilly aristocrat who's a warm little girl after...
...second feature on the bill, "Spend thrift," although not much to speak of, at least does not pretend to be serious. It is the crude isle of a designing woman marrying a dumb aristocrat for money. However, Henry Fonda and George Barber with a great many really funny wise cracks, and their humorous gyrations make for ridiculous coincidence. There is more honest enjoyment in "Spendthrift" than "To Mary With Love...
LETTERS TO AN ARTIST-Vincent van Gogh-Viking ($3.50). Fifty-eight letters written by a tormented genius to a young Dutch aristocrat and artist. Written from 1881 to 1885, they give some insight into van Gogh's personality and aspirations, contain discussions of other painters as well as his theories about his own work. Illustrated, the book contains seven facsimiles of van Gogh's letters, showing the sketches with which he illustrated them...
...love affairs between battles-set against serene Irish landscapes beautifully described. In A Nest of Simple Folk he wrote an historical novel that covered the period from 1854 to the Easter rebellion of 1916; in Countess Markievicz he turned his cadenced prose to a biography of a picturesque Dublin aristocrat who joined the rebels, was sentenced to death, and saluted in one of Yeats' loveliest poems...
...travelers who found intellectual stimulation abroad, brought back food for speculation that quickened the minds of a generation, yet did not lose his sense of allegiance and duty to his own country as did the later expatriates. At the end he is seen as a dry, superior old aristocrat who still bemoaned the lack of a U. S. literature when Emerson, Whitman, Melville, Hawthorne, Thoreau were at the peaks of performance...