Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stolen Life (Elisabeth Bergner, Michael Redgrave; TIME, June...
Lear was a professional expatriate of the Robert Browning-Walter Savage Landor school. Most of his life was spent in Rome, Corfu, San Remo. His travels through Europe, Asia and Africa look like a map of the Barbarian Invasions. He saw Petra before Doughty, was nearly killed there by the Arabs, muddled through with superb British calm. Fanatics tried to assassinate the author of The Owl and the Pussy-Cat in India, in Turkey. At last Lear settled down in his San Remo villa with an Albanian servant and his cat Foss, "his daily companion for nearly 17 years." There...
...when he settles down to read this commentary on Harvard life--entitled, incidentally, "Out of the Bellglass"--he may be a little startled. For he will see what attempts to be a portrait of himself and what is indeed a caricature at best, an effigy at worst...
...senior, while rejoicing at any original note in the Album, may wonder if he has been painted from life, if this is the kind of picture he wants bandied about by posterity...
...Despite its (the Fogg's) brilliant exterior it is a rotting hulk aimlessly floating on a sea of meaningless and unrelated detail. . . . When it comes to relating fine arts to the life and thought of an epoch, particularly the epoch we are living in, the department is inadequate, barren, and moribund...