Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comedy of speech and manners. Leslie Howard is an elegant Henry Higgins--we are so tempered to think of Rex Harrison in the role that it is amazing how quickly Howard's image shuffles Harrison out of our heads. Wendy Hiller is a vital and beautiful Eliza Dolittle, and Wilfrid Lawson is joyously seedy as her father. Arthur Honegger composed the musical score, so even if you miss Lerner and Loew, there are compensations...
...Stone, a California-based biochemist, regards vitamin C as a magic bullet that not only can help man avoid scurvy but can serve as a treatment for cancer, heart disease and schizophrenia. Nobel-prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling has advocated large doses to prevent or cure the common cold. Dr. Wilfrid Shute, a Canadian cardiologist, believes that proper use of vitamin E can aid in treatment of damaged hearts. Others recommend vitamin E for hypertension and rheumatic fever; some claim that it will promote sexual potency...
With Couples, Updike's next novel, Updike took an ambitious stroke at resolving his darting allegiances. It was flawed by flatness and defensive negativism. Wilfrid Sheed at the time accurately described the type of community Updike etched...
Violette Leduc's death last month was not accompanied by any of the usual obsequies reserved for Literary Figures. Genet has made no great show of his mourning: Stephen Spender has not lamented her passing in the New York Review: Wilfrid Sheed has not given her a page of print in the Times Book Review. I first learned of her death a week ago while reading a dated issue of Time in a doctor's waiting room. She was a rejected in death as she had been all her life...
This is not to say that everything here is completely unenlightening on the retrospective's subject. Two critical articles on John Wesley Harding and a final essay written especially for the anthology by Wilfrid Mellers shed some light on Dylan's musical roots, the religiosity of his music, and his development as a writer...