Word: diana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prose pieces of real merit are reminiscences (both true and "untrue") by lesser known writers, Anne Halley, Robert, Hellman, Diana Athill. Miss Halley's piece, a really magnificent sketch, recalls her life (or the life of her herine) as a child in Nazi Germany before the Second World War. When the Nazis ascend to power her family leaves for America...
...sure the parents of Maria Livanos are happy that their daughter has none of the sluttish qualities of Cressida--a sensual, unprincipled creature of the stews, no finer than the Westminster whores who were neighbors of the Globe Theatre. And the parents of Diana Echlin should be gratified that although her Helen is beautiful she is not going to destroy the United Nations with personal wantonness. Most of the actors in this depraved drama look like upright citizens who are not going to betray Troy, Greece or the United States...
...women, Rush's 19th century successors were even more gallant than he. John Rogers' Lost Pleiad shows American sculpture at its most blatantly sentimental. Daniel French's Memory is a matronly nude shown brooding about some lost and precious moment, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' golden Diana is as winsome as the larger original that once graced the top of the old Madison Square Garden...
Swinging Dors (Diana Dors; Columbia). In her first album, British Cinemactress Dors, who is best known as a platinum-haired prowline, demonstrates surprisingly that she is also a singer. Equipped with a clear, flexible voice and a natural knack for phrasing, she works her way with equal ease through ballads (Imagination) and rhythm songs (Come By Sunday), giving all of them a raffish and rueful charm...
...next one emerges from her tweeds with a less sympathetic expression. Diana married one of Britain's mighty brewers -Bryan Guinness, stout feller-but got divorced and married English Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley...