Word: unkindnesses
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History and legend have both been unkind. Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier wrote of "painful Kelpius . . . maddest of good men . . . weird as a wizard, over arts forbid." But before the day when he died in his garden at only 35, Kelpius had succeeded in giving his followers something of his vision of a life sustained in its every moment by communion with...
When Josephine tells her Strand audiences "I love you," she obviously means it. But she is still surprised at her big success. Twice before, when she interrupted her expatriate career to try out her talents in U.S. musicals, the critics were unkind. After she made a big hit in Havana this winter, she let U.S. showmen persuade her to try again...
Until last week, museums were generally unkind to Thomas Hart Benton and Benton was unkind to museums. They resemble graveyards, he remarked ten years ago, "run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait . . . Nobody goes to museums. I'd like to sell [my paintings] to saloons...
...world today cannot keep a happy equilibrium with my gossip and the atom bomb," announced Veteran Telltale Elsa Maxwell, who had decided to give up her column for good. "What is gossip after all but unkind things said, usually not even based on fact or the truth? I can't add all that trouble to those that already exist, so I have taken up my music [she used to play the violin], my best old, old friends and the quiet peace of quiet living...
...journal of Britain's Socialist Medical Association, criticized Bevin for "having his unfortunate illness treated at two places outside the National Health Service." It added accusingly: "He is not the only person prominent in the Labor movement who has gone outside the National Health Service." This was an unkind cut too. It was aimed at Sir Stafford Cripps, who went to a Swiss vegetarian clinic last year to soothe his troubled stomach...