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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nono. In appearance Joyce is slight, frail but impressive. He stands five feet ten or eleven, but looks as if a strong wind might blow him down. His face is thin and fine, its profile especially delicate. He wears his greying, thinning hair brushed back without a part. Joyce reads and writes sprawling in bed or on a couch but he does not like it known. He is very formal in public, in restaurants prefers straight-back chairs in which he sits bolt upright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Barnacle; a son, Giorgio, 33; a dancer-illustrator daughter, Lucia, thirtyish. Giorgio, who married American Helen Gastor, has one son, Stephen James, lives in a Paris suburb where Joyce and his wife frequently visit him. Grandson Stephen is adored by his grandfather, calls the author of Ulysses "Nono...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Finally Newman's day came. Pio Nono (Pius IX) died; his successor raised Newman, at 80, to the Cardinalate. Ten years later (1890) Death came for him, who had lived to see his wheel of fortune come full circle. A gentleman and a scholar, he had his reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road to Rome | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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