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...second decision involved a Texas prisoner named Ernest Smith, who was convicted of taking part in a grocery store robbery during which his accomplice killed a clerk. A judge asked Dallas Psychiatrist James Grigson to talk to Smith in jail to see if he was mentally competent to stand trial. Grigson decided that he was. After a jury found Smith guilty, it reconvened to sentence him-a procedure required by Texas law whenever the state seeks the death penalty. Grigson, a controversial figure with a striking record of testifying in favor of the death penalty (see box), said that Smith...
England's 17th Poet Laureate was not without sympathizers. Said Poet Geoffrey Grigson: "Betjeman is not really to blame. The problem is having to get emotional about the monarchy at all." History seems to support Grigson's point. Most Laureates have found the muse reluctant to lower herself for mere royalty. At the birth of Prince Andrew in 1960, C. Day Lewis, Betjeman's predecessor, had to make do with "You princely babe, you pretty dear/ For you we bring/ The birthday honors of the quickening year." He could have done worse. When the future Edward...
...surrounding county suburbs. Gracious mansions became tenements. By 1952, the city was one-quarter slum, another quarter near slum. No new office buildings had been put up in 25 years. Industry pulled out in wholesale lots. Property values and business activity plunged. "You might ask," wrote English Author Geoffrey Grigson in 1951, "why anyone would be proud of such a dump...
...clutter of dead birds, he produced perhaps the most tasteless of all royal portraits. But it was not only his Victorian smugness that caused his failure. Said Critic Eric Newton in the Manchester Guardian: "He was not a good enough painter." He was, added the more acid Geoffrey Grigson of the Observer, "the Great Worst Painter (and Richest Painter) in the whole bad history of the Academy...
...also keeps him supplied with champagne, Lewis' only drink. Though gentle and courteous to strangers, Lewis is too much on the boil ever to symbolize the cool peak of disciplined independence which he regards as the acme of civilization. His deepest strength lies in what Critic Geoffrey Grigson has called the brilliantly energetic "word-welding" to be found in Lewis' poems. These tell in essence what is the core both of Wyndham Lewis and the century in which he lives...