Word: lees
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...editor or two). But TIME is very much the work of individuals-with styles, ideas and idiosyncracies of their own. Their identities, though, are more and more frequently mentioned in our pages. Thus, we are not reluctant to inform Reader Katz that the man he admires is Alwyn Lee, who has been rendering judgments on the literary world for TIME since...
Born in Australia, Lee cut his teeth covering "the everyday humble-bumble of police courts," worked briefly for an encyclopedia but never got much beyond "Fleas, Performing." He believes that writers of fiction and poetry often give a truer picture of this world than sociologists, historians, scientists and politicians. "After all," he says, "who thinks of Queen Victoria in terms of Gladstone or the warehouse full of bureaucratic bilge? No. We think in terms of Dickens, as today will be thought of in terms of Koestler, Auden, Mailer and Waugh...
This week, Lee reviews Jesus Rediscovered, by Britain's Malcolm Muggeridge, whom he finds weak on God and grace, but "brilliantly funny on their adversaries the world, the flesh and the devil. Fiat Nox (let there be night) he sees as the first commandment of the modern world." In lighter vein, Lee tells us that he has found a name for the small house in Italy that he and his wife Essie have bought from an actor named Arnoldo Foa. Since the place has only a sometime well, and awaits a regular water supply, Lee calls...
...Consisting of Agnew, NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine, Air Force Secretary Robert Seamans and Presidential Science Adviser Lee DuBridge...
Richmond might as well be Indian-apolis or Des Moines. Of course the old monuments are still around-Robert E. Lee's home and Thomas Jefferson's graceful state capitol-but they have no effect on the modern city. The city appears as all-American as any medium-sized integrated city in the nation. The whites are moving to suburbia-toward Chesterfield and Ashland in the north and west-while the blacks are coming into the city seeking work from the nearby Southside. The lower middle-class whites resent the blacks, but can do little about it except vote...