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Almost from the start, once he had got past his adolescent prewar exercises in Impressionist landscape, Boyd let his fear and yearning run with startling freedom. "Seek those images/ That constitute the Wild": Blake's exhortation was seldom better fulfilled by a young artist than it was by Boyd. In paintings like The Gargoyles, 1944, the Melbourne beach suburb of St. Kilda, where he lived, became a theater of freaks and demonic hybrids, as real in its way as Mikhail Bulgakov's fantastic Moscow, because grounded in memory. Thus the blond cripple in The Gargoyles is a fellow artist...
Clarence: Russell Wong [who played a handsome but adulterous and abusive husband in the film] was an attractive and masculine character. You seldom see that. The guy was strong, masculine, attractive--a better image than being effeminate and a pansy...
...consolation was in store for Harvard on Wednesday, especially after the first-base umpire invoked a seldom-used runner's interference call on freshman Mike Hochanadel in the bottom of the seventh inning to nullify Harvard's game-winning run. The result--a 7-7 tie with Boston College in the Beanpot third-place game...
...assorted wits and twits of Britain's Bloomsbury circle, but they deserve the attention. Founded in 1934 as an organ of the U.S. Communist Party and reborn independently in 1937, PR for nearly two decades was America's pre-eminent journal of literature and ideas, despite a circulation that seldom exceeded...
...still appears, but it seldom makes waves. At its zenith, though, it was home to some of America's brightest talents, from the novelist Mary McCarthy to the poet Delmore Schwartz to the critic Lionel Trilling. In its pages, tiresome Marxist posturing coexisted with the best of literary modernism; the editors, Macdonald perhaps most of all, believed that politics was of no consequence when it came to high art. Thus PR printed short stories by Kafka and poetry and essays by Anglo-Catholic royalist T.S. Eliot...