Word: angelically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death in 1947, Perkins, as editor of Charles Scribner's Sons, was literary nurse to such authors as Thomas Wolfe, Ring Lardner, Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. In Wolfe's case he was also surgeon, cut and helped revise the huge, sprawling manuscript of Look Homeward, Angel...
...William Warfield, Eleanor Steber, Harry Belafonte. The world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Maria Golovin will take place in Brussels, and some performers from the Newport Jazz Festival will appear. The most cherished scheme of U.S. Performing Arts Coordinator Jean Dalrymple: to find a well-heeled angel who will underwrite a live run of Pajama Game...
...probably succeeded in giving us neither). In order to affirm and support his contention regarding over-formalism in the teaching of letters at Harvard, Mr. Leonard laments the eclipse of Thomas Wolfe, who, it is affimed, had Something to Say. I am at present re-reading Look Homeward Angel: mere plot will not do! There is a prevalent cliche that writers like James, who concerned themselves deeply over this method, have less to say than the ravenous Wolfes of this world. May I suggest to Mr. Leonard that a sympathetic reading of Wings of the Dove would reveal...
...life among Roy's relatives that staggered them. Less than 75 yds. from Roy's cottage stood the elder Harris' swamp-angel shack where, wrote the New York Post's Milton Gross (a Brooklyn type), "you'll see barefooted and barebacked kids whooping and hollering through the woods and kittens feeding off their mothers in the front room. You'll see cattle and hound dogs and the head of an alligator long since gone. Chickens and hogs and rusty tin cans and discarded tires. You'll see garbage strewn on the ground, flies...
...during her years there wrote and edited some of medicine's basic works on neuroanatomy, gathered probably the largest collection of sub-mammalian and mammalian brains in the world. At Ann Arbor, she earned a sparkling set of honorary degrees and a sentimental tag from student physicians: "Angel of the medical school...