Word: idol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devoted theatergoer (he has sat through Anne of the Thousand Days four times), possibly because in his youth he wanted to be an actor himself. Britain's Alexander Cadogan found American plays rather inferior; as for recent movies he liked best, they were Henry V., Hamlet and Fallen Idol; when Cadogan thought about it, he realized that all three of them were British. As for T. S. Eliot's Cocktail Party (TIME, Jan. 30), Cadogan found some of it a bit difficult to follow. "But of course," he added, "I may be getting hard of hearing...
...Fallen Idol. Graham Greene and Carol Reed (see above) wring suspense from the story of a small boy (Bobby Henrey) in a world of adult intrigue; with Ralph Richardson (TIME, April...
...books he deserves, says Boston University's Edward Wagenknecht in his introduction to this collection-"We find, inevitably, the things that were destined for us." Thus, Wagenknecht and Britain's Walter de la Mare have proved to be made for each other. In fact, Wagenknecht paid his idol what is perhaps the highest compliment that can be given an author: he took him along to read on his honeymoon...
Marini could be brutal as well as touch ing. His little Kneeling Girl had the crude, ruined air of a primitive idol dredged up from a marsh. It was academically con vincing in some parts, arbitrarily distorted in others. Where pieces of the plaster mold had stuck to the bronze, it was leprously splotched. The head was as round and almost as blank as a cannon ball, but its blankness was part of Marini's intention: a human "universality" that classic features might have lacked. The Kneeling Girl's fat, soft hams and absurdly shriveled arms gave...
...Fallen Idol. Graham Greene and Carol Reed (see above), wring suspense from the story of a small boy (Bobby Henrey) in a world of adult intrigue; with Ralph Richardson and Michele Morgan (TIME, April...