Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Constable always lived under the artistic shadow of J.M.W. Turner, who was almost exactly his own age but far more successful in contemporary eyes. In retrospect, it seems as if the dashing Turner should have been the neglected revolutionary and Constable the acclaimed conservative. But Turner, however radical his techniques, still painted the grand subjects and the dramatic scenes congenial to the Romantic taste; by contrast, Constable's themes seemed merely homely. Turner was a poet of the imagination, Constable a poet of the real. Turner saw a vision of hell in a snow storm; Constable could...
...Rainbow; of cancer; in Burlingame, Calif. Broadway lit up the instant Ella sang How Are Things in Glocca Morra?, but success was a long time coming-32 years-from the day she toddled on to a Paisley, Scotland, stage to pipe Roamin' in the Gloamin' at the age of two. Besides Finian, she did Sons o' Fun and George White's Scandals, then went on to movies and TV until her semi-retirement in the 1950s...
Fidelman is a failed painter who has bummed enough money from a married sister for a year in Italy. Intending to make a cosmopolite and a critic of himself in his middle age, the boy from The Bronx has bought a tweed suit and a pigskin briefcase and begun a book on Giotto...
...characters and all that happens to them are projections of an interior morality play, more interesting, possibly, than what gets staged. This funny, racking battle between unseen angels and demons is what makes Malamud vibrate so faithfully to both the hope and the despair of his age...
...virtues) of cleverness have now been replaced by the virtues (and vices) of relentlessly with-it seriousness. Susan Sontag-complete with academic sojourns at Oxford and the Sorbonne, and stints as a philosophy teacher-has proved to be just the girl to play tuned-in scholar to the age of McLuhan. In this, her second collection of essays, she continues to develop the main lines established by an earlier book, Against Interpretation...