Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play by Graham Greene is a curiosity and a half. Called Carving a Statue, it stars Ralph Richardson, who is a single-minded whittler. To the exclusion of all else, he works in his studio on a massive statue of God. Well, not quite all else. He takes time out to seduce his son's girl friend. Then the family doctor has a go at the boy's next girl, who happens to be a deaf-mute. She runs off and is killed. Despite head-scratching reviews, the play is running strong. It will in all likelihood make...
Though Britain has had more than its share of internationally renowned sculptors in recent years, first-class English painters have been few and far between. Of those who have come forward, nearly all, like Graham Sutherland, Ben Nicholson and Francis Bacon, are loners who have attracted few, if any, significant imitators. One reason for the dearth of painters has been the traditional conservatism of British critics and collectors. Even after 49 years as a pillar of the Royal Academy, the great Joseph Turner was so fearful of critical scorn that he never risked exhibiting his last, prophetically impressionist, paintings...
...purpose of the rotation of the serving women is to "create a labor pool that can operate in all five Central Kitchen Houses," C. Graham Hurlburt, director of the food services department, said yesterday...
Finding its single-issue approach too narrow last spring, Tocsin amended constitution to include problems of economics and civil rights. But it was still basically a peace group, and its member's interests had outgrown Tocsin's boundaries. When Anthony Graham-White '65, Tocsin president wrote to its other three officers this summer, for example, two of his letters were directed to Meridian, Miss., and the third went to a community project in Chester...
...Admission. The book is one of the richest publishing coups of the century, simultaneously released worldwide in eight languages. Publishers had been angling for it for years, without response. In 1957 Max Reinhardt of Britain's Bodley Head press wangled an invitation to meet Chaplin through Novelist Graham Greene. After dinner at Chaplin's secluded mansion in the little Swiss village of Corsier, Chaplin shyly asked his guests if they would like to hear him read aloud some trial passages from a book he was starting to write. "It was a shattering, staggering experience," Reinhardt recalls, "this magnificent...