Word: tennysonian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's mellow Century Club in the 1890s. Pyle, later joined by his star pupil, N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth, founded an informal art school at Wilmington, Del., where young Pyles and young Wyeths still make most of the art news (TIME, Nov. 15; 1937). Abbey's Tennysonian women and Pyle's nut-brown heroes haunted subsequent illustrators in oil. So did their love of historical romance. One of their stylistic descendants is Norman Rockwell (45), whose first Saturday Evening Post cover appeared in May 1916, and who has grown rich on the subsequent 185. A perpetually...
...send boys and girls to college not because that is the time in which they learn best, but because we ourselves have learned no better place to send them during that period of callow, unformed youth." With these words the conqueror of the Tennysonian Galahad continues his illusion-shattering march...
Author F. Tennyson Jesse is a grandniece of the late great Alfred Lord Tennyson, onetime (1850-92) Poet Laureate of England. But she is no whole-souled admirer of the Tennysonian virtues. Some of her printed remarks should make her great-uncle revolve in his cerements. One-time painter, newspaperwoman, reviewer, correspondent for the Ministry of Information during the War, she has also written: Tom Fool, Many Latitudes, Moonraker, Murder and its Motives. Author Jesse is married to Harold Marsh Harwood, with whom she collaborated on a play: The Pelican. She lives in Sussex, likes yachting...