Word: alwyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover story on Ford and the new philosophy of social commitment that is spreading through U.S. commerce and industry. Ordinarily, Ford is one of Detroit's less accessible executives, yet on this occasion he talked open WITH deep regret I report the death in Rome last week of Alwyn Lee, who has been TIME'S foremost literary critic. He was, as a colleague fondly puts it, "a swinger of the intellect. Until one met him, one never fully understood what the college president means at commencement time when he invites you into 'the fellowship of educated...
There were many Alwyns, and probably none of us knew all of them. Alwyn the critic could sift a ton of aesthetic sludge and produce a column and a half of buoyant wit, pleasure and wisdom. It is stultifying to honor a man with lists, but it would be remiss not to mention his TIME review of Nabokov's Lolita, a model of incisiveness and insight; a brief and scintillating piece on Henry Miller that tells all anyone will ever need to know about that writer; and a short story called Something for Bradshaw's Tombstone, which prefigures...
...tone of pessimism in this report is emphasized five years later, in the class of '29's Twenty-Fifth Reunion Report. Amid biographies of his classmates Leroy Anderson, John K. Fairbank, Alwyn Pappenheimer, and others, Blackmun announces that he has given...