Word: max
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PORTRAIT OF MAX (317 pp.)-S. N. Behrman-Random House...
...gods have bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age," quipped Oscar Wilde when Max Beerbohm was all of 25. It is difficult to know precisely when Max's old age began. Perhaps, since he "detested change of any kind," it began at birth. He was the ninth and last child of a late-fiftyish father; a faintly melancholy, autumn mood came as first nature to Max. Then again, his old age may have begun at 23 when his first book, archly titled The Works of Max Beerbohm, was published, and he announced (prematurely) his retirement from...
Sempiternal Edwardia. Thus the man whom Playwright S. N. Behrman came to know as a friend in 1952, when Max was almost 80, was merely biologically old. Essentially, he had not changed for more than four decades: he had not retreated to the past; he had simply refused to leave...
...Kennedy by a wide electoral margin in 1960," predicted Max Lerner last night. The author and journalist who is currently professor of American Civilization at Brandeis told an agreeable overflow audience at the Ford Hall Forum that the popular vote may be close, but, because key states have similar issues and problems, the electoral vote will be overwhelmingly for the Massachusetts senator...
...TRIAL BEGINS (128 pp.)-Abram Tertz, translated by Max Hayward-Pantheon...