Word: rima
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After uttering these words, Sculptor Epstein, iconoclast, inconoplast, famed for "Rima," a bird sculpture* in honor of famed Naturalist W. H. Hudson, boarded a boat for the U. S., where, it is rumored, he intends to live. On his arrival, he planned to survey an exhibition in which appears his Madonna and Child (my greatest sculpture and my best"); then he will go to Buffalo, "where they have a lively interest...
...Latin language, for we find inscribed on the fly leaf: "Heaven forbid! This work should not exist in its present form and language! Yet I cannot avoid the wish that it had been, during the reign of James the first, moulded into an heroic poem in English Octava Rima...
...voice of Somerville Hague, sculptor, went on forever. Ensconced before Jacob Epstein's Memorial for W. H. Hudson* (TIME, June 1), fortified with a box of assorted sandwiches and mobled in a large ulster, he stated that he did not like Sculptor Epstein's conception of Rima, the wood nymph. "Look at it. ... Did you ever see such a thing in the name of art? . . . It has a head like a criminal and its arms . . . monstrosity . . . frighten the sparrows. ..."So the sweet and often feeble voice of old Somerville Hague trickled like lymph through the June...
...British naturalist and man of letters. Rima, whose sculptured likeness is the subject of the controversy, is a character in Green Mansions, most famed of his books...
...onlookers, many of whom, it was noticed, were old men-dignified seigneurs, others whose peaked countenances and obvious irascibility made it clear that they could come under no definition other than that of curmudgeon. They aimed trembling fingers at a panel of the memorial which was said to represent Rima, bird-nymph, a character in Hudson's Green Mansions. Next morning, letters appeared in the press denouncing the plaque as an "atrocity," calling upon the Government to remove it, hinting that "there were those" who would subscribe the necessary funds. Tory critics wrote venomous articles excoriating Epstein. They pointed...