Word: albion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...opinion, lost. His own images were overwhelmingly linear, his style based on outline and infill. The line recalls its 16th century sources in mannerist engravings (Blake never crossed the channel, and so had to depend on prints for his contact with Michelangelo). His famous Glad Day, showing Albion, the spirit of resurgent England, in mid-dance with his arms flung ecstatically wide, was based on a mediocre diagram of Vitruvian man in an old treatise on proportion; it transcends its source as Macbeth transcends Holinshed...
Jerome J. Longton Albion, Mich...
Stem-to-Stern. Acting on a tip, police broke into a storage locker belonging to a resident of Albion Towers, a 15-story Southampton public housing project, and uncovered a 400-lb. cache of gelignite. That is enough explosive material to make about 80 bombs of the type that have terrorized London since the I.R.A. opened a new campaign of random bombing three months ago. The gelignite was later traced to an Irish explosives manufacturer and presumably had been transported into Britain directly across the Irish Sea. But shortly after finding it, police rounded up 46 suspects, including a number...
...part, the I.R.A. has clearly not been forced out of business by losing its cache at the Albion Towers. Three days after the raid, a bomb was hurled through the window of London's chic Walton's restaurant, two blocks from Harrods department store in the Knightsbridge district, killing two diners and injuring 20 others. It was the 16th such terrorist attack since August 27, and it brought the toll in the current bombing campaign to eight dead and 187 injured...
...when a few quoted phrases and a sentence of summary would have conveyed the nature of most of them. Bernstein prints them, almost without excision. Bernstein, moreover, is the kind of writer who tries for breeziness by referring, for instance, to New York City as "Gotham," to England as "Albion" and to Hollywood as "the fabled Tinseltown." He sees nothing wrong, either, with writing "his scrupulously guarded virginity, hidden for so long on that same lofty pedestal where American Womanhood dwelled, was surrendered to a semiprofessional demimondaine, a Folies-Bergère dancer named Ninette, and was continued with another...