Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Thurber, world-weary artist-humorist (My World-and Welcome to It, My Life and Hard Times), was admitted to the dusty, plushy National Institute of Arts and Letters.* Also elevated: versifying Information Pleaser Franklin Pierce Adams, meticulous Poet Wallace Stevens (Harmonium), rumpled, ever-ready Poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin (Maine Ballads), left-winging Dramatist Lillian Hellman (Watch on the Rhine), New York Times Columnist Simeon Strunsky (Topics of The Times...
...Toledo had a deadly two-handed overhand set-shot artist; diagnosis showed that rushing him as soon as he made an upward motion upset his timing by a split second-all that was necessary...
Slowly, Ryder, now a successful artist, forgot the family at Brideshead. When the Depression blanketed England, Ryder became the last consolation of Britain's dying aristocracy. "I was called to all parts of the country to make portraits of houses that were soon to be deserted or debased; indeed, my arrival seemed often to be only a few paces ahead of the auctioneers, a presage of doom...
...artist's son, Richardson started acting at 18, has seldom been without a part since. A hardworking, not very confident, thoroughly un-actory actor, he trudged slowly to the top, has also made a name for himself in British cinema (The Citadel, The Silver Fleet). In 1935 he made his only U.S. appearance, as Mercutio in the Katharine Cornell Romeo and Juliet. In 1939 he joined the Fleet Air Arm, "flew all day and never thought of anything. I was deaf as an adder and had a wonderful appetite." Last year he and his fellow flyer, Olivier, were released...
Author Slobodkin has an artist's eye for significant detail and the kind of gossipy fluency that makes many women's letters easy reading. He has also managed to smuggle into print (suitably disguised) a verb seldom seen in polite English prose since Lady Chatterley's Lover. In fact, Slobodkin has assimilated himself so completely to the somewhat rancid life of his crewmates that some readers may feel that they have listened to a five-hour monologue by a seafaring stablehand...