Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week critics were arguing bitterly about his lounging plaster female with a breast like a precariously balanced baseball. Some liked it almost as well as Englishman Henry Moore's pachydermic pinheads or German Joan Arp's egg-smooth abstractions. Others contended that it could not be compared with the high standards in postwar sculpture set in more conventional works by Milanese Artists Marino Marini (TIME, May 30) and Giacomo Manzu (TIME, July 18), who have been winning praise in both Britain and the U.S. but for lack of new work to exhibit were not represented...
...Facts of Life" makes no attempts at seriousness and thereby avoids all the vices. A young Englishman's adventures in Monte Carlo against his father's advice makes for one of the lightest and pleasantest brief moments to flicker across the screen in some time; but it is better seen that talked about...
...live out the winter. The old warrior still has "no complaints," she reported, but "he is eating his heart out with loneliness. He never sees anyone except me . . . He read the Churchill memoirs, but don't ask me what he said about them. Churchill is a great Englishman-but there, he is an Englishman, and that...
...British lieutenant colonel who had escaped from the Japanese and was hiding in a Malayan mangrove swamp, wrote a letter to the Japanese occupation governor. Would His Excellency be so good as to mail to London the Englishman's diaries, which had been taken from him by his former Jap captors...
Author Dennis, a saturnine-looking Englishman of 38, is settling down this month in a Hertfordshire cottage after 15 years in the U.S. He has been a top reviewer of TIME'S Books section since 1942, before that, edited the book department of the New Republic and scanned movies for the National Board of Review. A Sea Change, his second novel (his first, Chalk and Cheese, was published under a pseudonym in England in 1934), goes to show, as history has shown, that a good literary critic may also be a good novelist. Not only has Dennis performed...