Word: leone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half has not been distinguished by pioneer literary criticism, it was certainly an age of great literary biographies. A few primary examples come to mind: Richard Elimann's biography of James Joyce (1959). W.J. Bate's of John Keats (1963), Henri Troyat's of Tolstoy (1967) and Leon Edel's of Henry James of which the final volume appeared early in 1972. All are definitive studies and brilliant. Quentin Bell's new biography of the British feminist critic and novelist. Virginia Woolf, while lacking the voluminous scope of some recent works because it intentionally avoids a critical evaluation...
...been covering many facets of the male-female relationship, but we decided that the field deserved its own section. It will appear in alternation with Behavior. We expect to treat the subject seriously, scientifically when possible, but humanly and at times, we hope, with humor. Says Senior Editor Leon Jaroff: "Obviously some new male-female patterns are evolving at different rates and in different guises round the world. It's a wide range of territory that will let us talk about the Pill one week and, who knows, love poetry the next." One sign of how topical the subject...
...reconstruction. Money posed no great problem; the Nixon Administration, which is anxious to burnish Washington's tarnished image in Latin America, would almost certainly be eager to help bankroll the building of a new capital. But where? Managua was now a three-time loser, it was true, but Leon, the country's second city (pop. 50,000), also lies in an earthquake zone...
...seminar called Music 180 was 30 minutes into its dissection of Stravinsky's Sonata for Two Pianos when the door flew open and a 5-ft. 8½-in. whirlwind spun into the room, flung a fur coat onto a chair, affectionately pinched the cheek of Professor Leon Kirchner and subsided into a sitting position on the floor. It was "retired" Superconductor Leonard Bernstein, now 54, making his rounds at Harvard as the new Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry...
Screenplay by LEON PROCHNIK...