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Back in London, the Diaghilevian Esthete Ambrose Silk was about to publish Ivory Tower, a magazine arrogantly devoted to the arts alone and written by him alone, featuring a manifesto in the old avant-garde style of the '20s which insulted everybody and thing in sight. Poppet Green was "painting away like a mowing machine . . . bodiless heads, green horses and violet grass, seaweed, shells and funguses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Bore War | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

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