Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winchell, with whom he has bitterly feuded in the past few years). He reaches for friendship, shows most people he writes about in a favorable light, and often makes them more amusing than they are. At one time, he was helped in this by his quick-witted, attractive wife Sylvia. Those who appeared in "The Lyons Den" didn't mind if Sylvia's quips were sometimes put in their mouths. Lyons occasionally blunts-or loses completely the point of a story. But most people don't seem to mind, since few people whose stories he tells ever...
...Life and Death of Sylvia, by Edgar Mittelholzer. A tragedy of shades of color in British Guiana (TIME...
...Life and Death of Sylvia, by Ed gar Mittelholzer. A tragedy of shades of color in British Guiana (TIME...
...Life and Death of Sylvia, by Edgar Mittelholzer. A tragedy of shades of color in British Guiana (TIME, Jan.11...
...weakness of The Life and Death of Sylvia is that, having once got his unhappy heroine down, Mittelholzer never gives her a fair chance to get up: it is he, more than "society," who imposes on her the final alternatives of prostitution or starvation. But Sylvia remains one of the most gruesome studies of race relations ever written, precisely because its cast is composed almost entirely of colored people. Many novelists have stirred the human conscience with polemics in black & white, but Mittelholzer is among the first to explore the terrible underworld of shades where life and destiny hang upon...