Word: shelleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie set in Rome saw some off-camera soap opera when high-strung Cinemactress Shelley (A Place in the Sun) Winters, in the midst of a scene, spotted her estranged husband, Cinemactor Vittorio (Rhapsody) Gassman on the set with the other woman, Italian Actress Anna Maria Ferrero. Shelley tossed a hand mirror at Gassman, clawed his face, was aiming a roundhouse right at Anna Maria when Actress Winters' coworkers corralled her long enough for Gassman and friend to escape...
...Shelley once asked, "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" That these words lack logic makes no difference; Shelley wrote them in an era when young men had a right to be far more gay and optimistic than they are in ours. But for years we have suspected that they are merely the careless lyricism of an exuberent soul. Indeed, for the past month we have entertained certain misgivings as to whether spring will come ata all this year...
...smile sympathetically at the young lady, but can only shrug our shoulders at the rest. Still, she and Shelley might have a point. Malenkov and McCarthy permitting, Spring may come to Cambridge this year after all. It's never missed an opening date...
...least since the days of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the literature of adolescence has been full of sensitive schoolboys hounded by packs of their coarser fellows. Novelists like to even the old scores retroactively by painting the tormentors as unmitigated monsters. In Scotland's Burning, a first novel with autobiographical overtones, Nathaniel Burt offers a refreshingly different version. He writes an indictment without bitterness, a confession with candor. Scotland's Burning is the first-person story of a year in the prep-school life of Anthony Comstock,* 14, told by the hero 25 years later...
...Manhattan's Bowery; of a heart attack; after he was found in a snow-filled Bowery doorway. Educated at Hamilton and Columbia, he got his Ph.D. at Oxford, became an assistant professor at Hunter College. In 1929, after winning critics' acclaim with a two-volume biography of Shelley, Professor Peck saw his academic career blow up in a tabloid scandal. Suing for separation, his wife accused him of leading an "unbelievably immoral life," named a Hunter student among five corespondents. Ousted from the faculty, the once elegant "Love Prof" drifted down to the Bowery, thereafter regaled fellow down...