Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Memories are sometimes tinily footprinted, particularly when she is talking about her suitably eccentric Jewish grandmother. But the whole thing is not like that. In early childhood, everyone's parents are taken for facts of nature; judgment or love or forgiveness may follow later, in a lifelong search for identity. In that sense Mary McCarthy's art-wearing no makeup here, and armed with little of her famous wit-contrives to make her apparently simple material the story of a search for herself...
...President characterized the McLeod nomination as State Department business, State last week cocked a quizzical eye at an ambassadorial choice made directly by Ike. The nominee, to replace Career Foreign Service Officer Frances E. Willis as Ambassador to Switzerland: Henry J. (for Junior) Taylor, 54, of Charlottesville, Va. Lifelong Republican Taylor is an independently wealthy businessman (Chairman Silicone Paper Co. of America, Inc.) and sometime author (Men in Motion, Men and Power), who switched to journalism on the eve of World War II. During the war he specialized in the "big picture," covered headquarters closely, became friendly with General Eisenhower...
...book is born; a classic is forever reborn. Each generation supplies its own Pygmalions-men with the love and skill to breathe new life into the literary monuments of the past. As Pygmalions to the ancient Roman poets, two lifelong classics scholars and teachers, Gilbert Highet (Columbia) and Rolfe Humphries (now a lecturer at New York City's Hunter College after 32 years at Long Island's Woodmere Academy), have love and skill to spare. Poet Humphries renders Ovid's famed, amoral The Art of Love in its most readable translation since Dryden's, including...
...they soon moved to the German-American community of New Braunfels, Texas. A few days before Ben's eighth birthday, his father was killed in an industrial accident in San Antonio. The boy shouldered his new responsibilities as male head of the family with what would become a lifelong seriousness and intensity...
Died. Percy Wyndham Lewis,* 72, irascible and erratic novelist, artist and critic-of-mankind; of a brain tumor; in London. A self-styled "Renaissance Man" and professional dissenter, Lewis launched a lifelong guerrilla warfare on convention in 1914 with Blast, a magazine (co-edited with Poet-Pundit Ezra Pound) which ferociously lit into the popular romanticism ("chaos of Enoch Ardens, laughing Jennys, ladies with pains, good-for-nothing Guineveres"). He introduced cubism to Britain, then characteristically turned on it fiercely when cubism became popular. In a series of novels written in prose as rough-edged as a raw nerve (Tarr...