Word: tarr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wives, and is ridiculed when she attempts landscape architecture a la Provence. She befriends a fakir of an artist, who misconstrues her attentions as love, but so embroils matters for herself that she leaves town even after the young Eric has been killed on a drunk. To satisfy Adelaide Tarr Gimmitch and other American ladies, she returns to her husband when she has learned that "Main Streets exist everywhere...
...Wyndham Lewis is brilliant. He has a pointed, a trenchant style; and he has written one novel, which does not fall short of greatness. "Tarr." And with his equipment, he should not waste his time flying Remarque or Sassoon, if they are really as insignificant as he claims...
Married. Harryette H. Post De Tarr De Tarr, Denver heiress, divorced wife of Brothers James Major De Tarr and Noble Arthur De Tarr; and Beverly Keith De Tarr, a third brother; in Los Angeles...
...Ezra Pound to hail him as leader of a new school: Vorticism. Vorticist Lewis, together with Pound, edited two numbers of a vitriolic review, Blast, before he enlisted with the Royal Artillery in the War. Since then, an enfant terrible in earnest, he has written many biting books: Tarr, The Art of Being Ruled, Time and the Western Man, The Childermass. By its enormous scope and exuberant execution The Apes of God should do for modern satire what Joyce's Ulysses did for the modern novel...