Word: wizenedness
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By Dawn's Early Light. On the even days, when the Reds do not shell the island (to prove that they can control its destiny at will even if they cannot seize it), supplies pour into the beaches from Formosa. Farmers swarm into the fields. But having learned to...
Scene: A bar, disgustingly grubby, ill-lit, reeking of soggy cigar butts, garlic, and rancid butter. Set apart from the armpit set at the counter is a wizened skeleton of a man, with stubble on his cheeks and liquor dripping from his chin. This is Nomily Crass, pauper, sot, ne...
Abroad, a pair of artistic Americans were cackling their views on the North American vale of tears. Madly unpredictable Old Poet Ezra Pound, 72, predictably greeted Italy with a wizened arm raised in the Fascist salute, modestly named for reporters the U.S.'s best poet ("Ezra Pound"), said of...
To catch its hackle-raising horrors, Twentieth Century searched around Europe last spring, out of a ten-mile tangle of celluloid salvaged 2,400 evocative feet, garnished it with an equally evocative script by Emmet John Hughes, author of Report from Spain (and now chief of TIME-LIFE'S...
Died. E. G. (Ernest George) Harcourt Williams, 77, deft, wizened character actor of the British stage (more than 200 plays), screen (Hamlet, Roman Holiday), radio and TV, who joined the Old Vic in 1929, produced (in four years) some 50 plays, revitalized Shakespearean production, introduced works of his old chum...