Word: inked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...autobiographical. Each crisis of her life, almost as in a diary, may be marked throughout her work. Such an intense fascination with oneself often descends in literature to a sort of raving sentimentality in which one's own life becomes the criterion to judge significance of material. Thus an ink stain on a grade school composition receives equal treatment with the publication of a first book, leaving both author and reader floundering in a great amount of weepy nonsense. Colette's reserve in this respect, and her sifting of minutiae, gives her work a universal pathos which is far from...
...collection to the Government. In the 32 years since its opening, the Freer Gallery has delighted millions of visitors. Its Chinese painting collection has only one rival outside of China (Boston's Museum of Fine Arts), and includes hundreds of masterpieces on a plane with the Sung Dynasty ink drawing at left...
Furtive Publicity. In 1945, at the age of 21, with the ink still wet on her final decree from Di Cicco, Gloria embarked upon her second marriage-this time with Conductor Leopold Stokowski, then 63, a divorced veteran of two previous marriages and of a well-publicized journey (to Tunis, Stockholm, and Ravello's Villa Cimbrone) with Greta Garbo. Like Garbo and Leopold themselves, Gloria had by this time developed a considerable talent for gaining publicity by seeming to avoid it. Her furtive elopement with the famed maestro from the town of Truckee, Calif, was attended by at least...
Beethoven to Mendelssohn. As a result of Editor Blom's uninhibited pen (always filled with green ink), much of Grove V is merry and informative,* avoids the sentimental dogma of earlier editions...
...including 39 in foreign countries). This week Stainless Steel was getting ready to perform a most unheroic act: he will take over the strip from Scarlet O'Neil. Customer papers will get a letter from the syndicate: "Stainless Steel has shoved the lady right out of the ink bottle . . . From now on, it's Stainless Steel...