Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there's always the gamble as to whether that actual physical touch will do what you want it to." At 45, Sutherland is one of Britain's best landscape painters; until lately he had never tackled realistic portraiture. When his first try, a full-length oil of Author Somerset Maugham, was finished last week, artist and sitter agreed that the gamble had paid...
Marshals representing other Harvard classes will include publisher Gardner Cowles '24 of Look Magazine; Counselor Charles E. Bohlen '27 of the State Department; Congressman John F. Kennedy '40; Headmaster William G. Saltonstall '28 of Exeter Academy; author Cleveland Amory '39; Columnist Joseph W. Alsop '32, and Managing Editor Victor O. Jones '28 of the Boston Globe...
...sums it up near the end of the book. "'My ideals,' he said, 'at least keep a mediocre author plugging...
...other people who will appeal to the folks who read the Saturday Evening Post (and might buy "Opus 21" if properly titillated), and pushes them briskly into conversation with the book's central character, name of Phillip Wylie. Character Wylie takes these chances to deliver Author Wylie's party line, with considerable display of gusto, and the general attitude of a prophet...
...this highly contrived excuse for a series of monologues weren't sleazy enough, Author Wylie has three of the book's five female characters offer their beautiful bodies to Character Wylie in the course of one feverish weekend, which is the time limit of the action. It is significant that Character Wylie rejects these offers in order to have more chance to talk...