Word: wessex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battalion, Wessex Regiment, British Expeditionary Force, was assembled in England in January 1944 and destroyed in Normandy six months later. From the City, from the Plough is the chronicle of its infantrymen's life & death. Published last year in Britain, the book was both a bestseller and a critical success. Some reviewers described it as the All Quiet of World War II; others were reminded of Journey's End. Critic V. S. Pritchett, one of Britain's best, called it simply "the only war book that has conveyed any sense of reality to me." Published...
...immunity of its artists that is the chief hope of the British cinema. Most of it has been enjoyed-and most of the fine films have been made-by a small group of artists, "The Independents." There are four sets of Independents: The Archers, the Cineguild, Individual Productions, and Wessex Productions. Two Cities Films, Ltd. and occasional guest artists such as Laurence Olivier, Gabriel Pascal or Carol Reed (Odd Man Out) also do fine work...
Hardy was still a boy, Author Cecil Doints out, when he became obsessed by the monotonous, changeless elements of village tragedy-"the drama of broken love and wronged girls, the feuds and the hangings . . . the witchcraft and the wax images." The laborers of "Wessex" (Dorsetshire) lived in clay cottages and raised families on seven shillings (less than $2) week. At 15, Hardy was already so appalled by the menaces of adult life that he longed to remain a boy forever. By the time he was 18 he had seen a man and a woman publicly hanged. Soon after, when...
Soon, he believed, a new type of man would dwell in Wessex-a man so naturally wounded and disillusioned that from the day of his birth his face would reflect not the zest for life of previous centuries, but only a morose determination somehow to survive. Beauty would become an unbearable irony. "Men," said Hardy shrewdly, "have oftener suffered from the mockery of a place too smiling for their reason than from the oppression of surroundings oversadly tinged...
...product of his researches was a valuable biography: Hardy of Wessex (TIME, April 22, 1940). Another is this study of Hardy's U.S. readers and reputation...