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...essayist Nirad Chaudhuri, all of whom were his contemporaries. Greene's The Quiet American is dismissed because it presumed a knowledge of Indo-Chinese politics and Naipaul imperiously claims to not be in the habit of reading the newspapers. Anthony Powell was a good friend - in fact, during the 1950s he helped the young and ambitious Naipaul secure work as a book reviewer for the British magazine the New Statesman, and displayed an avuncular warmth that Naipaul warmly recalls. But Naipaul now conducts a shameful hatchet job on his late benefactor's reputation, depicting him as the plodding...
...FAMOUS HAWAIIAN-beach kiss with co-star Burt Lancaster in the wartime drama From Here to Eternity introduced sex appeal, however tame it may seem by contemporary standards, to 1950s moviegoers. Previously cast for roles that accentuated her genteel English demeanor, Deborah Kerr gave a sultry performance that earned her a spot in history as one of Hollywood's premier sex symbols. Too tall to pursue her first love, ballet, Kerr also made her mark in roles like the starched governess in The King and I and a hopeless romantic in An Affair to Remember. She was nominated...
Chabon is playing a double game here: he's a Pulitzer winner with the verbal chops of a mandarin writing in the voice of a junk-sick 1950s pulp hack who dreams of being a Pulitzer winner. He seems to find the masquerade liberating. For once he never has to stop the action or worry about the prose being too purple or not purple enough. Gentlemen contains only trace amounts of irony. Best of all--and this is good for Chabon, who, unlike Updike, has a sentimental streak--the characters feel emotions only when they want to, and never more...
...Myrna’s is radical and Myra’s is conservative; each seeks refuge with his aunt. Rounding out the cast is the principal love interest: Julia T. Havard ’11 plays Jim as the romantic foil for both characters in the 1950s. Havard also plays Sarah, Myra’s lover after she inexplicably becomes gay some time in the 1980s...
...curator of the Museum of Modern art in the early 1950s, he organized perhaps the most ambitious, most successful photo exhibition of all time, The Family of Man - 503 shots of shared human experiences gathered from around the world. Edward Steichen Lives in Photography concludes with a large, computerized, virtual reconstruction of the Family of Man. Steichen - the perfectionist, innovator and promoter - would have loved...