Word: myth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MODIGLIANI, MAN AND MYTH...
Modigliani, Man and Myth has very little myth about it, and not even much of the man, but it is authoritative, and it contains more than a hundred reproductions of Modigliani's paintings, drawings and sculptures. The author went to those who had known him-both "the indulgent sentimentalists, who melt as they tell of the handsome and elegant young man, so lordly, so cultivated and so exquisitely kind-hearted," and "the intolerant, for whom the artist does not excuse the unbearable buffoon, who could neither stand alcohol nor keep away from it, the weak author...
...generalizations to offer about the Mid-West and the East. There are differences, none of them shocking, and most of them superficial. I think it may be easier for a youngster who wants to study to do so here, without having to hide it. And the old prep school myth--what they used to call 'lack of serious-mindedness'--doesn't seem to be true...
...Eliot Myth...
...latest book, The T. S. Eliot Myth, attacks the more rabid members of the Eliot cult. Earlier, Robbins helped to edit a compendious listing of all known Middle English poetry. In addition, he wrote one of the volumes in the Oxford edition of medieval lyrics...