Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would not Mr. G.O.P. Elephant be the outstanding personality for 1946, and a fitting portrait to grace your cover...
...gets radio awards by the baker's dozen. This week she will get "one of the sweetest of them all." The society of Audubon Artists will honor her for making the most "notable contribution to radio" in the last year. The dividend: her portrait painted free by Maximilian A. Rasko, who has done Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and a heap of crowned heads...
...Literature. At Kazan University, where he had distinguished himself by refusing to be educated, Tolstoy had read the complete works of Rousseau with such adoration that he wore a medallion portrait of him around his neck. In the army he began to write, still under Rousseau's influence and partly in enthusiasm for Laurence Sterne. In 1852 Tolstoy's Childhood, written in camp, excited the reading public in Moscow and won the praise of Turgenev and of Dostoevsky*-then in exile in Siberia...
...first, and happy choice, for a new series which New Directions says will feature "important modern writers whose books are not easily obtainable."* Dylan Thomas is Britain's most spectacular and distinguished younger poet, but barely half of his prose and verse (The Map of Love, New Poems, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog) has been printed in the U.S. One possible reason: most of Thomas' brilliant, tempestuous work is so shrouded in uncommon meanings and metaphors that the average reader is likely to find his work incomprehensible without a guide...
When Austrian-born Biographer Stefan Zweig committed suicide (together with his wife) in Brazil almost five years ago, he had been working on Balzac for a decade, referred to it as "the large Balzac" that was to become his magnum opus. Now published, his passionately sympathetic portrait of the prolific French novelist is clearly handicapped by the sudden death of its author...