Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emergency, have vastly increased their political power. Therefore, the avowed aims and purposes of the British Labor Party, collected from recent statements and resolutions, make interesting reading. There are pronouncements by Laborites Arthur Greenwood, Herbert Morrison (Minister of Home Security), Philip Noel Baker, Clement Attlee, Hugh Dalton, Leonard Woolf and Harold Laski...
Last fortnight another friend, Novelist Virginia Woolf (Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse, Orlando), laid out Critic Fry for all to see in a stately biography, Roger Fry (Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), as solemn as a satin-lined coffin...
...Woolf's work obscure rather than clarify the question: Why write a book about a critic? Yet Roger Fry's achievements were genuinely great. Hampered by a stodgy Quaker background and upbringing, burdened with a great personal tragedy (his wife early became insane), he was not a successful painter, had a hard time learning how to write and lecture for a living. When he hoped for the directorship of the National Gallery he was passed over; he was made Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge only in the last year of his life. But Roger Fry made more...
...elder J. P. Morgan made Fry curator of paintings and buyer for Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Critic Fry appreciated neither the good qualities of the U. S. landscape ("One expects a new continent to be more original") nor those of Mr. Morgan, whom Biographer Woolf describes as a man of prodigious vanity and colossal ignorance. Mr. Morgan's power over the Museum-a "worse than Turkish rule"-soon led to Roger Fry's dismissal...
Best reading in Mrs. Woolf's 301 pages is Critic Fry's account-however colored by his own self-esteeming captiousness-of a picture-buying trip in Italy with...