Word: bald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry James.was the Winston Spencer Churchill of fiction. Portly and bald, and one of the greatest talkers in literature, half-English by choice, as Churchill is half-American by birth, colorful, eloquent, holding fast to his opinions in the face of staggering reverses, he was to novelists what Churchill was to Britons in World War II-their battered but undefeated champion. He was the great embodiment of the idea that fiction is an art, and that it is art that makes life, that gives it interest and meaning...
Your Health, Sir. In York, England, the will of the late, bald Herbert Wood, who had once caught a nasty cold when he removed his hat at a funeral, considerately directed that the men at his funeral remove their hats "for not more than a few minutes...
...varies, he said, with geography and intellect. For some undetermined reason, the most intellectual men are apt to be the baldest. Dr. Armattoe attended the 1947 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Dundee, Scotland, and found that 55% of the male delegates showed "central baldness" and 22% "frontal baldness." Swedish intellectuals were found to be in the most desperate shape: 70% of them are bald before they are 40. In Switzerland the incidence of intellectual baldness is only...
Mustaches & Models. Intellectual women have hair problems too, but of a different sort. At the Dundee convention, said Dr. Armattoe, 58% of the female scientists between 21 and 45 showed "hirsutism in the form of mustaches." Swedish women are luckier than others. Most of them are as bald on their upper lips as the male Swedes are on their pates. But on the whole, Dr. Armattoe concluded sadly, mustaches are an increasing problem to the cultured young women of Europe...
...Signature is to be judged with the important consideration that it is written and put together by relatively inexperienced college students, it would be easy to nod obligingly at most of the material. But if one uses the bald criterion of whether it is good literature and makes good reading, there is little to be said for the magazine. Only two of the five poems and one of the four stories are worth bothering about; much of the other stuff represents promising work of young writers in development, but it is writing that the authors themselves should never have tried...