Word: austen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...completeness is your aim, choose an author who is easily embraced, that is, whose works you can collect, assemble, and see as a whole. Fielding, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Stendhal, Turgenev, Hardy, Conrad, Bagehot, Matthew Arnold-such writers are not too voluminous; each one has kept up a steady standard, and endowed his works as a whole with a corporate character. Voltaire, Goethe, George Sand, Wells, Bennett, and Belloc, on the other hand, are no use for this purpose . . . They all wrote some rubbish. And to the scholars can be left the mountainous minutiae of Walpoleiana, or the Boswell Papers...
...nearly as sticky. Betty Furness left her refrigerators long enough to fly to Hollywood to replace ailing Joan Blondell in Let's Face It, with Bert Lahr and Vivian Elaine. She might more sensibly have remained in Manhattan. On NBC. Kraft TV Theater's adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma was so filled with feminine squeals, flutterings on tiptoe and elfin men that it seemed to be played by an entire company of Mary Kays and Johnnies; on ABC, Kraft had better luck with Run for the Money, featuring Jamie Smith and Phyllis Love, a drama that...
Kraft TV Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC). Jane Austen's Emma, with Felicia Montealegre...
...high, bleak Karakoram, mightiest of the Himalayan ranges, China, Russia, India. Tibet. Afghanistan and Pakistan merge in a tumult of mountains. Dominating the peaks, in the northernmost corner of Pakistan-held Kashmir, is the world's second highest mountain: 28,250-ft. Mt. Godwin Austen, known to mountaineers as K-2.* For years, K-2 has been regarded as unclimbable. Last week the news came through that the unclimbable had been climbed by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio, 57, a geology professor at the University of Milan...
Locarno is a name with golden memories to Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden. It is a pretty Swiss town on Lake Maggiore where in the fall of 1925, on the initiative of British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain (half brother of Neville), the Western European Allies of World War I (Britain, Italy, France, Belgium) met with their old enemy, Germany. There Germany, then a republic, joined in collective guarantees of its Versailles Treaty borders with France and Belgium. Britain undertook to fight Germany if Germany attacked either France or Belgium, and to fight France or Belgium if either attacked Germany-thus...