Word: suffolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Critics pronounced Britten's music full of "vitality" and "force," but found something a little "fierce" in the libretto's psychological case history of a sadistic Suffolk fisherman (adapted from a 19th-Century poem by George Crabbe). The boyish, mild-looking composer (when he was eight he wrote an angry song to be sung by God) indignantly denied that his tale of a madman was gloomy: "It is the struggle of the individual against the masses ... a subject very close to my heart...
...grandiose historical paintings, like the great John Trumbull's Revolutionary War murals. But Mount, an innkeeper's son who first learned the technique of oil painting from a sign painter, reacted against the fashion: he painted the things he knew and loved in his native Suffolk County, N.Y.-warm, simple scenes of farm and village life, farmhands, ragged schoolboys, Negro slaves...
...studio painter, Mount toured the countryside in a horse-drawn contraption of his own invention. It was a studio on wheels, equipped with a glass window, stove, ventilator and skylight. In beard and broadcloth, the magnificently free occupant of this vehicle roamed the lanes of Suffolk County proving to his own satisfaction that a pig was more paintable than a princess...
Snug in her cozy Suffolk home, small, bright-eyed, merry Lady (Dorothea) Gibb read an article by famed Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg exhorting his fellow Russians to hate the Nazis harder than ever. To so devout a Quaker as 83-year-old Lady Gibb, such talk was abhorrent. She penned a note to Comrade Ehrenburg, told him he was filling Russian minds "with something very old and evil, a thirst for vengeance after victory. . . . This does not bring happiness to the victor but only leads to sorrow and evil in the future...
...Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, 35, 20th of his line, who succeeded to the title as a child after his father's death in World War I. A man of many parts (Australian sheep rancher, sailor before the mast, rare-books collector, scientist), he became one of Britain's leading bomb-disposal experts, was blown to pieces (with seven of his staff) by a bomb three years...