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Word: cometh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Iceman Cometh. Barnes quarreled with Bernard Berenson, Bertrand Russell. Jacques Lipchitz-the greater the adversary, the rougher the battle. His most venomous attacks, though, were reserved for women. Marriage, Barnes often said, was just a cheap and wholesome substitute for prostitution. He delighted in bullying female employees into tears, embarrassed one young secretary by dictating letters to her from his steam bath, interspersing his correspondence with commands to fetch towels and turn on the shower for him. When Edith Powell, art critic for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, had some mild reservations about the Soutines in a rare public exhibit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ogre of Merlon | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

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