Word: bertram
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FABULOUS LIFE OF DIEGO RIVERA by Bertram D. Wolfe. 457 pages. Stein...
Wolfe could. A friend of Diego's since the 1920s, when both were members of the Communist Party, and later -after his disenchantment-a brilliant writer on Communism (Three Who Made a Revolution), Bertram Wolfe in this biography has tried to untangle fact from fantasy. And yet the lies of this great, hulking 300 Ibs. of a man, believes Wolfe, are the key to his life and art. His dreams were more real to him than reality, and to him, all ideas were playthings. Said his third wife, Frida Kahlo: "He never told a lie that was stupid...
...John Bertram Phillips of Dorsetshire has a rare and felicitous talent: he can make St. Paul sound as contemporary as the preacher down the street. Seeking to "transmit freshness and life across the centuries," Phillips produced a New Testament in Modern English that abandoned archaisms in favor of unadorned clarity and read more like Lord Jim than King James...
...would be appreciated of the CRIMSON would dispense with its unnecessary, uninformed, and unintelligent comments on Bertram eating habits. Bertram Hall...
Another item of consensus was hatred of the proposed common building between Eliot and Bertram, which would jut out into the quadrangle. "Intrusive and unnecessary," was one verdict, and there was no one to speak for it. "I hate the Commons building," one girl said simply...