Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really good Wilde biography-i.e., candid, sensitive, objective-is Frances Winwar's Oscar Wilde and the Yellow 'Nineties. Readers may find something reminiscent of Wildean paradox in the fact that a woman wrote it. To readers of her previous biographies (Farewell the Banner: Coleridge and the Wordsworths; The Romantic Rebels: Byron, Shelley, Keats; Poor Splendid Wings: the Rossettis) it is also a reminder of Biographer Winwar's uncommon skill in portraying the pre-Wilde period. At its best, her book does for the decadent flowering of England's Nineties what Van Wyck Brooks...
This year, for the first time, there will be a complete renovation of type by a more modern and easily readable kind which was used in this year's Register. Paralleling this distinct Improve- ment over previous editions, Bliss added that the new candid pictorial section instituted by last year's book will be greatly increased...
Last week, neatly dusted off, 20 of Sculptor Browere's busts were exhibited in Manhattan's plushy Knoedler Galleries. Their realism predates the candid camera by a century. Browere's exact method died with his son Alburtus, differed markedly from the usual life mask's heavy layer of plaster or clay applied while the subject is flat on his back. Like a modern lace-pack beauty treatment, it consisted of a series of light, quick-drying layers that could be put on while the subject sat at his ease. Thus beplastered for posterity were Thomas Jefferson...
...Album will be divided into five sections. These will be called "College," with pictures of the various buildings and the faculty, "Houses," "Athletics," which will include a great many candid pictures. "Activities," and "Album," which will feature the History of the Senior Class. The frontispiece will be printed in four colors...
...making an international ass of yourself, Unity!" she was told at the Bayreuth Music Festival last summer by candid young Cambridge Poet Stanley Richardson, protege of the Archbishop of York. Asinine indeed had been her conduct ever since she let the Führer pick her up originally in a Munich cafe in 1934. "I want everybody to know I am a Jew-hater!" she soon wrote to the Stürmer, the notorious Nazi anti-Semitic organ, "England for the English-out with the Jews! Heil Hitler!" By last summer the Führer was visibly tired...