Word: leon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large whitewashed studio in the London borough of Hammersmith works a wild-haired, chalk-faced old man who wryly likes to compare himself to the Prophet Elijah. "You have to pay for working alone for 40 years," Sculptor Leon Underwood says. "The ravens fed me; but since ravens do not have watches, they often came very irregularly." Today, at 71, Underwood does not have to depend so much on ravens. People have begun to buy his work, for when, after an eight-year hiatus, he finally consented to a one-man show in London two years ago, British critics raved...
...queen (Salome Jens), a thuggish labor czar (Neville Brand). Among the dim: a songstress with maternal yearnings (Carol Lawrence), a lawyer with a festering case of Korean combat fatigue (Jack Kelly), an aging poet-turned-furniture-dealer (Walter Abel) and his wife (Carmen Mathews) who has a Ponce de Leon complex. From 1 a.m. to dawn, these characters soliloquize, harmonize (around a stage-center piano), and bend the playgoer's ear without touching his heart or prickling his nerves. They all seem to be high on bootleg rhetoric ("You drink a cup of sunlight, you're immortal...
Taking Over the Buyer. Elliott owes its enviable record to the vision of one man-bushy-browed Sir Leon Bagrit, 60, its Russian-born managing director. Bagrit, who was brought to Britain by his parents during World War I, started out as a salesman for a London scale manufacturer, founded his own engineering company in 1935. In 1946 his fast-growing firm was bought up by Elliott Brothers, an old-line instrument maker with dwindling sales. Bagrit took command of the merged company. Impressed by the control systems developed to leash atomic energy during World War II, he decided that...
Gargoyle president and Master of the Winks, Fred Goldberg, claimed that the victory was especially impressive since GUTS was playing without its ace, Leon "Squidge in One" Jacobson. Apparently Leon once accepted a candy bar for winning a match in his native England, and the Eastern Collegiate Tiddleywink Society has challenged his amateur status...
...soon received the usual number of petitions, including several to which no clear answer was evident. Mason first discussed these specific cases with the CEP and then suggested that the general topic merited a formal and thorough investigation, in the form of the essay collection. In November, CEP member Leon D. Bramson, an assistant professor of social relations, took the responsibility for collecting and editing the essays...