Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teresa, for example (see cut), was "an attempt to portray in paint the personification of the Carrick Hill area-one of the poorer Catholic districts in Belfast. An attempt to feel my way into a particular aspect of Catholic mysticism, essentially Irish." It was an attempt, said he, to show "the ecstatic otherness of relinquishing all because one has nothing at all to relinquish...
...looking in were generally pleased as Punch. Middleton's exhibition in a Dublin gallery last week sold fast, and moved critics to unaccustomed cheers. Ireland's No. 1 painter, crusty old Jack B. Yeats (brother of the late great Poet William Butler), spent a morning at the show, at last gave his judgment: "It takes 40 years to learn to handle paint like that." Middleton was just...
Here's Morgan (Mon. 7:3O p.m., NBC-TV). Premiere of new Henry Morgan Monday-through-Friday show...
...actual publishers' figures of other bestsellers against the sales this year of its The Seven Storey Mountain, which was in eleventh place in the Times nonfiction list. Said Harcourt a month ago, in an ad in the Times: Mountain is actually leading the list. If any publisher could show better sales on a "list" book, "we will buy this space for him to say so next Monday." There were no takers. Next week Mountain jumped to third, is now second...
Last week Sell moved into Town & Country, moved out De Gunzburg's desk ("I never use one"), and drew up a list of employees to be fired. Sell intends to keep Town & Country "a magazine for people of means and taste." but thinks that a stronger staff will show there are at least 100,000 of them instead of the 50,000 who now buy the magazine. Says he: "I'm very happy to be back. It's like an opening-as if I were an actor, which of course I am. Last night at the Colony...