Word: rima
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rima, a bird-girl.* In his famed Green Mansions, Novelist William Henry Hudson invented this tale, described the graceful Rima thus...
...three years after Novelist Hudson died, London bird-lovers dedicated to his memory a bird-sanctuary decorated by Sculptor Jacob Epstein, situated in Hyde Park. Sculptor Epstein's panel represented Rima, arms outstretched, succoring two birds of prey. But to the consternation of the bird-lovers and the embarrassment of then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who unveiled the statue (TIME, June 1, 1925), Epstein's Rima was not the melodious and polychromatic creature of Novelist Hudson's fancy, but a new, strange, bovine character. Her archaic, flat-footed figure, her tremendous and sagging muscles, her heavy Buddhistic...
Epstein partisans have defended Rima in abstract terms, excoriating the beloved statue of Peter Pan by Sir George Frampton in Kensington Gardens as the "wedding cake" variety of sculpture, "fit only for mid-Victorians...
Last fortnight a London ''bobby," strolling through Hyde Park on his early morning round, noticed something amiss with the bird sanctuary, approached and looked at Rima. She was almost invisible beneath tar and feathers. There were no clues. Public opinion was satisfied that this was the work of outraged friends of Peter Pan, the boy-who-would-never-grow...
...Jacob Epstein's weird London sculptures (Rima, Night, etc.) have caused acrid controversy throughout England (TIME, July...