Word: w
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...W. F. POLLOCK, M.D. Santa Monica, Calif...
Leathery Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, now living in retirement in San Francisco, was getting ready for a new assignment: running the U.N. plebiscite to find out whether Kashmir should join India or Pakistan...
...proved to be a master of flowing figure composition, of painted space and painted light. He handled crowds and battle scenes with the flair of a D. W. Griffith, and pictured farmers and factory hands with so much natural rhythm that their work had the quality of a dance. But all this skill was just the foundation for the best virtue of Diego's art: an atmosphere of joyful reverence for life, which onlookers could remember long after the details of the paintings had faded from their minds...
...thereby hangs the tale told in Descent into Hell by Charles Williams (TIME, Nov. 8), perhaps the most remarkable English mystical writer since William Blake, a man whose life and work have had strong influence in the religious thinking of such leading British intellectuals as T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis and Dorothy Sayers...
...result is something very like an ecstatic vision. Readers who believe that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in most contemporary philosophy may agree with Reader W. H. Auden: "I think he's an uncertain craftsman, but I don't care...