Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friends have been invited even to tea at his twelve-room house in suburban Headington (as a Fellow of Magdalen, he has rooms in the college as well). Lewis sometimes refers vaguely to living with his "old mother," though his friends know that she has been dead since his childhood. One persistent rumor identifies the "mother" as a Mrs. Moore, mother of a friend killed in World War I, whom Lewis invited to keep house for him and who is pictured as an aged, bad-tempered old party. And there are said to be other dependents in the house...
...fierce, flamboyant art, which now fills one-third of the Louvre's 19th Century tier of honor. But Delacroix's leaping, flesh-tearing lions, burning cities, shipwrecks and hard-riding Moors suggest that, being a true child of his age, he never quite outgrew his childhood. According to one of the painter's closest friends, Poet Charles Baudelaire (who also gave life quite a Peter Panning), savagery was "the most precious part of [Delacroix's] soul, the part devoted entirely to painting his dreams and to the cult...
Several things put "The Yearling" far above any movie of nature, childhood, or animals that has appeared in the last few years. Its producers must have realized that the original novel needed no new "twists" or fetching young women, to be put across; just a few good astors, suitable scenery photographed in technicolor, and enough imagination to see the real movie possibilities of the book. All of these are here, and the result is something worth seeing...
...garden. At 79, old Jim Horner, sometime foremen at the Merthyr railroad station, is as clear of speech and keen of wit as ever. He is also as stoutly devoted as ever to his son Arthur, old Jim's pride and pain. Arthur has gone far since his childhood in Merthyr. Today he holds the fate of the nation in his clenched fists...
...settled for the summer on Fire Island-off New York's Long Island -where he owns a tar-paper-covered shack near a sand dune. On one wall of his littered study Poet Auden keeps an immense map of Alston moor in Cumberland below the Roman Wall, his childhood country, whose limestone quarries, fells and valleys-and mining machinery -have persisted as bleakly beautiful imagery in all his work...