Word: edward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EDWARD LEAR, THE LIFE OF A WANDERER, by Vivien Noakes. In this excellent biography, the Victorian painter, poet, fantasist, and author of A Book of Nonsense is seen as a kindly, gifted man who courageously tried to stay cheerful despite an astonishing array of diseases...
...definitions. His talent blossomed in an insane asylum. Yet his masterpiece, The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke, combines Boschian mystery with Alice-in-Wonderland fantasy in a way that makes it clear Dadd was a prophet of Surrealism. In a recent issue of the New Statesman, Critic Edward Lucie-Smith declares: "No 20th century British artist has succeeded in producing a picture as powerful yet as inexplicable...
...preliminary soundings, no roundabout hints; the telephone just rang one day early this year in Shana Alexander's Santa Monica, Calif, home. It was Edward Fitzgerald of McCall's calling, the resonant male voice said. "How would you like to be editor of McCall's?" The petite, blonde divorcee said she'd think it over. Although McCall's is the nation's largest women's magazine, with a circulation of 8,500,000, it has not had a female editor in 48 years, and Shana, 43, had not had any experience...
Chayes and Rathjens, along with Jerom B. Weisner of M.I.T., have been making a critical study of the Safeguard for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass). Their report, designed to counter the arguments presented by the Pentagon, should be released in two or three weeks
...Edward S. Mason, acting dean of the Faculty, will appoint Rosovsky's successor. Mason said yesterday that he hopes to make the appointment in the next few days...