Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion was an exhibition of work by Samuel Johnson Woolf, frequent TIME cover-artist, whose specialty is drawing and interviewing celebrated people. Artist Woolf has a psychological as well as artistic knack for his work. He gets not only good likenesses, but good talk. Many of the famed are either brusque or secretive with newsmen, strangers. But while Artist Woolf sketches renowned features he says just the things to stimulate the response of renowned personalities. Onetime Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany willingly confessed his identity to Artist Woolf while stopping incognito in Rome, sat for him in a hotel...
...Artist Woolf, Gilbert Keith Chesterton declared that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "was trying to emulate, in the spirit world, his famous character, Sherlock Holmes, but wasn't succeeding very well...
...Artist Woolf looks a little older but just as alert as his self-portrait (see above). Born 50 years ago in Manhattan, he was named, by parents who loved literature, after the great Dr. Johnson. He went to the College of the City of New York (1899) and, like most Manhattanites who relish pencil and brush, studied at the National Academy of Design, The Art Students' League. In 1904 he married; he has two daughters. For a long time he did oil portraits, exhibiting widely, winning academic honors. But, says he, "I had to commercialize my art by pleasing aunts...
...decided. Said Critic (onetime U. S. now British) T. S. Eliot: "I hold this book to be the most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted and from which none of us can escape." Said Critic-Author Virginia Woolf: "Ulysses was a memorable catastrophe-immense in daring, terrific in disaster." Said U. S. Critic Henry Louis Mencken to Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald: "Why, that book is full of smut!" Says Critic Henry Seidel Canby: "Joyce is a pioneer in the technique of the stream-of-consciousness novel, and very...