Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world from Friday's sundown to "the end of twilight on Saturday," he demonstrates its positive side in terms of a Sabbath during the crisis-fraught readying of a Broadway play. "Leaving the gloomy theatre, the littered coffee cups, the shouting stagehands, the bedevilled director, I have come home. It has been a startling change, very like a brief return from the wars. My wife and my boys, whose existence I have almost forgotten . . . are waiting for me, gay, dressed in holiday clothes, and looking to me marvellously attractive. We have sat down to a splendid dinner...
...traditional one of exclusion or persecution. He personifies Judaism as "Mr. Abramson" disappearing down a broad highway at the wheel of a high-powered station wagon, with the golf clubs piled in the back. Wouk puts it in terms of an imaginary news tory: "Mr. Abramson left his home in the morning after a hearty breakfast, apparently in the best of health, and was not seen again. His last words were that he would get in a round before going on to the office." Of course, adds Author Wouk. "Mr. Abramson will not die. When his amnesia clears, he will...
...born on July 30, 1898, in Castleford. There is something in the Yorkshire country, with its brooding hills and its sooted shadows, that brings out the digger and molder in a man, and by the age of ten Moore knew he would be a sculptor. Their miner's home was poor and crowded-Henry was the seventh of eight children. Father Moore was a fair but stern man. Says son Henry: "He was the complete Victorian father, aloof, spoiled like all of them in those days. No one could sit in his particular chair. But though...
...Moore's main studio, about 100 yards from his home in the small hamlet of Perry Green, there stands a recently completed bronze figure of a woman, her belly distended with an unborn child that could almost be moving, her neck and her back strained so that the bones and ligaments stand out. "As I was making that figure," says Henry Moore, "I was rubbing my mother's shoulder again. She was constantly in my mind. Those moments all become a part of the sculpture...
...struck Moore's imagination as sharply as a chisel striking stone. After two years at Leeds, he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London and discovered the primitive sculpture in the British Museum. "I was in a daze of excitement. I would literally float home on the top of an open-deck bus at the end of each visit." He was affected by all-Egyptian, Sumerian. Etruscan, archaic Greek, Norman, Romanesque, and especially by the art of ancient Mexico. One of his first reclining women (1929) is an unabashed descendant of the ancient Mayan Chac...