Word: 50s
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Artillery of Time-Chard Powers Smith-Scribner ($2.75). An undisciplined whopper (853 pages) about two New York State farm boys, one of whom carries the ball for rising U. S. industrialism (in the '50s and '60s), the other for democratic idealism...
...good deal of history in common. Both were born about the time the U. S. fought Mexico, died just before it entered World War I. Neither was popular in his lifetime, though each had tiis small circle of admirers and was elected to the National Academy in his late 50s. Both were moderately well off. And posthumously both rank high in the select assembly of U. S. old masters. Two exhibitions of Eakins' work and one of Ryder's on view in Manhattan last week served to reassert their stature...
...Henry David Thoreau and Richard Henry Dana (Class of 1837). The unbridgeable, bloody chasm between the Northern and Southern traditions was nowhere more evident than in the quiet incredulity with which Henry Adams regarded the son of Robert Edward Lee who was his classmate in the '50s. And the 19th Century was on its last legs in more than a chronological sense when Alice Lee stole up into the gallery of the old gymnasium because her fiance, Theodore Roosevelt (Class of 1880) wanted her to see him box a classmate...
...fang is 32. At the age of seven he had mastered Chinese music, studying with his uncle Yu-ti'en, famed musician and virtuoso on the stringed hu-k'in. When he was twelve, Mei Lan-fang, grandson of a great actor of the '50s, made his own debut as a tan (female impersonator). The impersonation of women is perhaps the greatest branch of Chinese acting, for women are not permitted on the stage.* Mei Lan-fang plays women's rôles entirely. He is president of Peiping's Actors' Association and his superiority in his calling is unquestioned...