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...Loved Chil dren (TIME, April 2, 1965) is a finely if lushly written story about Nellie Cotter, a left-wing journalist and later a raffish London bohemian. Nellie is the most forceful character in the Cotter family, whose life offers a sad insight into the awful milieu of the British working class in the industrial landscape of the Tyneside. A feast for the Cotters is one chicken in the pot, brought to the boil in saltless water and garnished with some dreadful cabbage; the local preoccupations are football pools, the union and the Labor Party, which replaced (but not satisfactorily...
...only to get the truth, and in so doing borrowed from both the techniques of the trial lawyer's adversary system (crossexamination and critical interrogation) and the historian's approach (applying logic, intuition and intellect to reach deductions from a mass of often uncorrelated facts). In this milieu, the critics' claims of Oswald's innocence are impressive only when they stand apart from the massive structure of other evidence unearthed by the commission...
Rutherfurd came from much the same blueblood milieu as the Roosevelts, was a descendant of both Peter Stuyvesant, the first Governor of New York, and John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts. His father was first a law partner of William H. Seward, Lincoln's Secretary of State, and later a leading astronomer. One of his own descendants, Grandson Lewis Rutherfurd, last month married Janet Auchincloss, Jacqueline Kennedy's half-sister, in the biggest society wedding of the year...
...lithography to painting pinup girls on the fuselages of B-29s. Returning from the service, he got a Guggenheim fellowship for oil painting, was ready to throw in the towel when he discovered the technique of tempera. About the same time he settled in Memphis. Somehow, medium and milieu matched each other perfectly and Cloar, now 53, was soon the master of his own distinctive style -a kind of sophisticated primitivism...
Instead of absorbing his elected milieu, Gauguin largely rebuffed it. In an area where food could be plucked from trees and the sea, he exhausted funds on potatoes, canned asparagus and claret imported from France. Nearly all of the native-language titles affixed to his paintings betray his ignorance of the tongue. He learned little of the native myths, committing to canvas misconstructions so gross that Tahitians would have laughed if they had understood them. To the end of his days, he painted human figures on the guideline checkerboards, like graph paper, that steady the novice's uncertain hand...