Word: decays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waugh astonished London's literati by becoming a Roman Catholic. He crowned his conversion with a most unfunny biography of the English Jesuit martyr, Edmund Campion, and with his most glacially sardonic novel, A Handful of Dust (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934), a satire on aimless decay and aimless viciousness in the patriciate. Later came Put Out More Flags, a hilariously mordant comedy about Britain's Wrorld War II bureaucrats and racketeers...
Other prizes ranged from typical Max Weber still life, Colonial Table (second prize) to one of Ivan LeLorraine Albright's painfully detailed studies of decay. Where-Fore Now Ariseth the Illusion of a Third Dimension, an also-ran. Sure eye-catchers were two robust paintings of fishermen -Jon Corbino's moody, swirling Fog, which caught a moment of mist-bound helplessness at sea, and Zolton Sepeshy's briny fifth prize, Fisherman's Morning, full of the smells of a Lake Michigan fish pier...
Playwrights Williams (The Glass Menagerie) and Windham are soapboxing for Life, Growth, Fulfillment and the Future. They set these abstractions up in an English country house, and arrange a match against Stagnation, Snobbishness, the Status Quo, Prudishness and Decay. On Life's side, along with a young flyer, is the young heroine's father (Edmund Gwenn), a rum-soaked old sea captain full of Elizabethan gusto; on Stagnation's side is the heroine's aunt (Catherine Willard), a snooping spinster full of Victorian gentility. The trouble with such highly contrasted symbols is that they themselves...
...watched the Rising Sun sink and the Stars and Stripes rise on the battleship Nagato, last capital ship of the once-mighty Jap Navy. A bomb had blasted a hole in her main deck "as big as a tennis court" and everywhere there was "the feeling of ruin and decay...
Thus, with a reminder that Hitler was one of the first modern men to grasp the significance of the decay of Christian faith, the Yale University Christian Association last week asked alumni to give their moral and financial support to a postwar religious program just recommended by a faculty committee of eleven...