Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even the inflated art market or the evening's glamour prepared the assembled company for the price fetched by Cézanne's Boy in Red Vest. After the last significant lift of an eyebrow and meaningful tug at a vest. Carstairs Gallery's Keller had outbid all others by offering a fabulous $616,000. It was the highest price ever paid at auction for any painting (previous auction high: $360,000 paid for Thomas Gainsborough's Harvest Wagon in Manhattan...
Died. Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson, 72, Irish dramatist (The Whiteheaded Boy, The Lost Leader, The Far-Off Hills'), a longtime director of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, short-time secretary to George Bernard Shaw; in Dublin...
Died. Abram Garfield, 85, patriarchitect of Cleveland, son of U.S. President James Abram Garfield; in Cleveland. As a boy, Garfield lived briefly in the White House during his father's short presidency...
This is conceivably the only novel ever written in which a boy tries to seduce a girl in a recumbent church bell. The would-be lovers fail, but that is because the clapper gives off a frightful clang that scares them both frigid. All of this will come as no surprise to fans of British Novelist Iris Murdoch (The Sandcastle), a philosophy-teaching Oxford don and an intellectual pixy whose wit ends in tears, whose sentences are transparent while her meanings are opaque...
...autobiographical Black Boy (TIME, March 5, 1945), Author Wright described how, from a horrible childhood in the South, he fled first to Chicago, then New York, finally to Paris.* He was an easy mark for the Communists but eventually saw through them and earned their lasting enmity. In The Long Dream the Mississippi Negro boy is called Rex "Fishbelly" Tucker, but so far as the story's essentials are concerned, his name might be Richard Wright. Fishbelly's father, an undertaker, once taught him an important truth as he buried the mutilated body of a young Negro...