Word: nymphe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Constant Nymph (Warner) is a little hoary at the temples. It was in vogue 19 years ago, has been twice filmed. But Margaret Kennedy's pathetic story about an adolescent girl's unrequited love for a middle-aging, married composer still exhales a tender, wistful charm...
This time Joan Fontaine is Tessa, the nubile nymph doomed to love in vain (in Switzerland and England) for 105 cineminutes, and to expire of excess happiness and a heart attack inside of one. Charles Boyer is egocentric Composer Dodd, who does not notice that little Tessa is growing up and in love with him. Alexis Smith is his icy socialite wife, who does notice...
When people in the future want to know what Britain was really like between the Nazi invasion of the Low Countries and the great bombings of London, this slightly refurbished journal of Margaret Kennedy (The Constant Nymph) is one of the books they will read...
...literary map, will christen the cruiser Atlanta, ∙∙Now that President Roosevelt has gone back to the old Thanksgiving, Republican Governor Sumner Sewall has proclaimed the new Thanksgiving for the first time in Maine. ∙∙ An unidentified axman vainly tried to decapitate Sabrina, the bronze nymph for whom 80 generations of Amherst classes have fought one another. ∙∙ Prophet Wilbur Glen Voliva of Zion, Ill. predicted a bad end for the dictators by plunging into a lake of fire (Revelation 21:8). ∙∙ Dr. Samuel Harden Church, 83-year-old head of the Carnegie Institute...
...blocks of north Michigan pine, each made by pressing planks together like a gigantic piece of plywood, Carl Milles carved the biggest one into his medieval-looking horseman and tree. From the other blocks he carved two flanking figures: a bristly, annoyed-looking faun and a pleased, curious-eyed nymph. When he had finished, Sculptor Milles claimed he had produced the largest piece of wood carving ever seen in the U. S., one of the three largest in the Occidental world. But that was not enough. Sculptor Milles wanted the bird in his statue to move and sing. With...