Word: sketches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...under a critic's byline? Last week in London, this question was put to a test by Tom Hopkinson, free-lance writer, novelist and onetime editor (TIME, Sept. 15, 1952). At the request of Herbert Gunn, 50, editor of Lord Rothermere's racy tabloid Daily Sketch (circ. 804,541), Hopkinson reviewed Front Page Story, a British movie melodrama with a Fleet Street background. After sending his review to the Sketch, Hopkinson was called by a subeditor and asked if one word might be taken out of the review. "What word?" asked Hopkinson...
With that shocking news came an extraordinary document: Oppenheimer's answer to the Atomic Energy Commission's letter suspending him. He wrote a 43-page autobiographical sketch, because "the items of so-called 'derogatory information' set forth in your letter cannot be fairly understood except in the context of my life and work." Oppenheimer's letter shone with literary brilliance; the strength of his personality leaped out from the page. It was especially moving to men and women in the same age bracket as Oppenheimer (he is 50). Many men ten years older...
...recently released sketch of Architect Wright's palazzo (and a view of the building it would replace...
...came from Mrs. Eleanor Brooke, a Washington, D.C. housewife, who, as Jean had been earlier, was a graduate student in Walter Kerr's drama class at Washington's Catholic University in 1948. Mrs. Brooke collected a vast pile of research and turned it into a lengthy character sketch of an egomaniac. Working on and off in her mobile office, Jean invented additional characters and material and built the play in six months...
...This sketch of Keats This wondrous boy− Today I made the flowing joy− Expression mild he gives delight To one like me of failing light− Long may he live for Beauty's sake− Is the wish of W. Blake...