Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Christopher Wood was only 29 when he killed himself in 1930-a bright, charming Englishman who had apparently failed to make the grade as an artist. His mother gave many of Wood's paintings away. A man named Rex de C. Nan Kivell, director of London's Redfern Gallery, quietly bought them up. Last week the Redfern was showing Wood's paintings to admiring crowds, and selling them for as much as ?1,500 apiece...
Even in England, the enthusiasm for Jocelyn Brooke and his metaphysical puzzlers (See above) is pretty much restricted to the critics and the advance guard. The ordinary armchair Englishman is far more likely to prefer Geoffrey Cotterell. There are no great puzzles in Cotterell. A 31-year-old middle-class Englishman, Cotterell writes about other middle-class Englishmen in a manner designed to let the whole breed murmur to themselves: There but for the grace...
...Young May Moon, by P. H. Newby. Adolescent sorrow in a quietly effective novel by a talented Englishman (TIME...
...Young May Moon, by P. H. Newby. Adolescent sorrow in a quietly effective novel by a talented Englishman (TIME...
...Young May Moon, by P. H. Newby. Adolescent sorrow in a quietly effective novel by a talented Englishman (TIME...