Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In recent elections, Ivy Films named Stephen J. Arpante '56 as president; Lewis M. Schneider '56 vice-president in charge of finance; and Raymond A. Hare, Jr. '58 as well as vice-president in charge of production.
...Lewises still live in the now famed studio apartment in London's decaying Netting Hill section (it became "Rotting Hill" in one of his books) that has been their home for 20 years. Visitors are rare, with the exception of Lewis' old friend T. S. Eliot, who also keeps him supplied with champagne, Lewis' only drink. Though gentle and courteous to strangers, Lewis is too much on the boil ever to symbolize the cool peak of disciplined independence which he regards as the acme of civilization. His deepest strength lies in what Critic Geoffrey Grigson has called...
It is as good as anything he has written since Tarr, and stands head and shoulders above the general run of fiction. It is about a British professor and his wife who emigrate to Canada just before World War II. (Author Lewis, born in Maine when his globe-trotting parents...
Champagne & Pygmies. "American book clubs pay quite astounding sums, don't they?" Lewis asked a visitor recently. Self Condemned, like all Wyndham Lewis' books, shows just why Lewis is self-condemned never to revel in bookclub riches. It demands steady concentration and hard thinking, strikes through to the...
* Not to be confused with D. B. Wyndham Lewis (no kin), humorist and biographer (Francois Villon).