Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON-Rebecca West-Viking...
...Alexander led Novelist West: 1) to think back to other political murders she remembered from her youth; 2) to go to a private projection where she had the newsreel of the murder of Alexander run over & over again; 3) to make a trip to Yugoslavia; 4) to write Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, an omnibus record of her journey-part travelogue, part history, part philosophical and political asides-one of the most passionate, eloquent, violent, beautifully written books of our time...
...tactless, "a sort of Italian Caroline Lamb." She horrified one gathering, wrote Byron, "by calling out to me 'mio Byron' in an audible key, during a dead silence. ..." Mary Shelley found Teresa "a nice, pretty girl" but "her legs, in fact, were far too short for the weight they carried...
Manhattanites waited for the melting watches, the hirsute oysters, the crutches, the lamb chops, that are the hallmarks of Surrealist Salvador Dali. But there were few such symbol-crashes in the ballet Labyrinth, given its world première at the Metropolitan Opera House last week...
...Auguste Rodin's secretary. Rodin hardly more than noticed him, but from Rodin Rilke learned the gospel of hard labor. Paris, too, exerted an essentially masculine influence, stony, harsh, forcing Rilke to a contemplation of that reality he so dreaded. Whenever he left Paris, he became the pet lamb of one great lady or another, his work sagged into mediocre translations and brilliant, sanctimonious letters. Not to a patron, but to his publisher Anton Kippenberg, Rilke owed the two most productive years of his life: the years in Paris writing the New Poems (fourth-dimensional still lifes) and that...