Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human. "I never have them pose," he says. "We just talk, about everything in the world. You see, sculpture is another language altogether; it has nothing to do with words. And the minute I start to work I feel this other language between me and the person I'm 'busting': a language of form. I feel it in my hands. Some of my busts are novels you might say, and some short stories. The one I did of D. H. Lawrence was a short story, because he died a week after I began...
...Sometimes the people talk as if you were their confessor. . . . Now I naturally get an immediate impression of a person, but sometimes the impression changes as the person talks to me. It's very surprising, the words that come out of a mouth...
...kitten and her finch and that sill ver oubliette which holds the letters (sweet counterfeits of passion!), she is indeed a very Mab of love. The publishing fellow (Robert Cummings), sniffing out the letters, blunders into her dream, effects a gentle transfer of her affects to his own living person and, though lose he must the literary remains, yet wins himself the woman of his heart...
...reports of the trials of a number of British World War II traitors. She covered the trials on assignment for the New Yorker, where her articles (now expanded and revised) were first published. But the idea was her own, and she could scarcely have chosen a better person...
...Repentant. There were other children of treason. Says Author West: "The children "who go from their homes with strangers because they have been given cakes and sweets are unsustained by pride when the unkindness falls on them. They know well that they have done wrong. A person should be loyal to his father and mother, to his brothers and sisters, to his friends, to his town or village, to his province, to his country; and a person should do nothing for a bribe, even if it takes the form of a promise that he should live instead...