Word: musee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Church, he loses his head. This much is familiar. But, we ask, why? Why does Sir Thomas follow the path of martyrdom that four hundred years later was to make him Saint Thomas? This is the question that Bolt explores in his splendid play and to which I muse essay an answer...
Writing prose as mauve as he does, it's no wonder that Novelist Irving Stone, 62, is salting away some of the profits from his biographical fiction against the day when his muse gets too flushed to continue. Now he's the proud landlord of a new $210,000 U.S. Post Office building in Sacramento, Calif., a fairly common circumstance these days, with the Post Office Department leasing many of its stations. The investment will enrich his royalty pile by $15,000 a year. Cracked Assistant Postmaster Gene Gibham, "If something goes wrong with the plumbing...
...acts, donated Gerona to a benefit sale for the Gotham Chapter of Retarded Infants Services, an event that also featured the efforts of such old masters as Soupy Sales and Xavier Cugat. "I take such a joy in painting," said Fonda, inspecting the art with his wifely muse of five months, Shirlee...
...united academic and creative pursuits more successfully than most recent poets. His Crane biography is the work of a strenuously intelligent man wrestling with one of his familiars; his first long poem, the Homage to Mistress Bradstreet(1953) treat a necessarily arcane subject, America's first poetress, the "tenth muse" Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672). It is a work of scholarship in fifty-seven stanzas that took four and half years to research. And his most recent book cangles whimsically with that ever less unattractive, increasingly charismatic image: the college professor...
...report was an astonishing relief. "I've written everything I want to say," announced Henry Miller, 74-at long last. From now on, said Miller as he opened a show of his fanciful watercolor paintings in Los Angeles' Westwood Art Association gallery, he will chase down his muse primarily with brushes. "It seems to me that the battle for freedom on the sex problem has been won," he proclaimed. Then, in a meditation that many wish he had made years ago, he added: "I would hope that younger writers would find something more important to rebel against...