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...Hollywood in 1940, the legend persisted, but with an important addition: the charming playboy was mourned as a great writer who had tragically dissipated his talent. To some intellectuals, the Fitzgerald story seemed the perfect prop to bolster a shaky thesis: that the U.S. is culturally too anemic to nourish its good writers. By implication, Fitzgerald's dipsomaniacal botch of his life derived from and was part of the national botch...
Presumably the shouting was about a world threatened by the atom bomb. Lorjou meant his painting to convey a hopeful message. If there is an atomic war, he says, "afterwards there will still be men. It will be necessary to nourish them...
...date in their psychology. They appointed Charles school ratcatcher-and so conquered his peculiar heart that he wore the Stonyhurst school uniform ("blue-tailed coat with gold buttons and a check waistcoat") on all special occasions until his death at the age of 83. Unfortunately, ratcatching also served to nourish the largest bee that ever buzzed in Charles Waterton's bonnet, i.e., his conviction that the common brown rat had been introduced to England by Protestant King George I. Thenceforth, the exterminating of the "Hanoverian rat" furnished the Squire with a pursuit that at first threatened to become...
...operator named Silvestro Ferrauto, who is bored to death with himself, his daily routine and everything else in his town. Nothing seems to matter. That, thinks Silvestro, is "the terrible part . . . to believe mankind to be doomed, and yet to feel no fever to save if, but instead to nourish a desire to succumb with...
Miss Crawford's chronic idealism, which has helped to nourish such noncommercial projects as the Experimental Theatre and the Actors' Studio, startled hard-shelled Broadway during the run of Brigadoon. With big profits in sight, she gave her cast of 62 what no performers expected from a producer: hospitalization insurance, free advanced acting lessons from Director Lee Strasberg, a week's vacation with...