Word: subject
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Havana, Ernest Hemingway was interviewed by Prensa Libre, which at last revealed the subject of the novel Hemingway has been writing at the past six years. "It'll be about the earth, the air, and the sea." Added Prensa Libre: "Hemingway is a complex figure without precedent. Quite a few regard him as the reincarnation of Benvenuto Cellini...
...Hurry, hurry, my dear friend, thumb over your Plutarch and choose a subject familiar to everyone-it counts a great deal." Jacques-Louis David, the painter prophet of the French Revolution, was advising a favorite pupil. "Now give yourself to what really constitutes history painting," he went on. "All other sorts . . . will disappear; only this is safe from men's passions...
...theological seismographs to jiggling. Last week, through a paraphrase prepared by Dr. E. G. Homrighausen of Princeton Theological Seminary and published in the British Christian News-letter and the U.S. Christian Century, the English-speaking world was registering the rumbles of another Barth-Brunner set-to. The timely subject: Protestantism v. Communism...
Died. Frederick Walker Baldwin, 66, pioneer Canadian airman, first British Empire subject to fly an airplane (March 12, 1908), onetime associate of Inventor Alexander Graham Bell; of a heart attack; in Baddeck...
Canon City (Eagle Lion). Last winter, in the most sensational jailbreak of the year, twelve more or less desperate convicts escaped from the state penitentiary at Canon City, Colo. Within three days they were all either recaptured or killed (TIME, Jan. 12). This was a subject for a first-rate movie. Canon City is not that good, but it is exciting, intelligent and unpretentious. It begins as a straight documentary, presented with gratifying simplicity and quietness, then gently eases in among the professional players, who re-enact the break and the man hunt...