Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young people in their first discovery of the compromises and dishonesties in the grown-up world. Her best-known novels (To the North, The House in Paris, The Death of the Heart) were so skillfully wrought that literary critics ranked them with the work of the late Virginia Woolf...
Died. Samuel Johnson Woolf, 68, famed artist-journalist (mostly for the New York Times), author (Drawn from Life, Here Am I) and onetime cover artist for TIME; of lateral sclerosis; in Manhattan. Woolf scored a success with his World War I battlefield paintings, hit on the portrait-interview combination in 1927 with a story on George Bernard Shaw, went on to do some 500 for the Sunday Times...
...Osbert Sitwell's "biography of a family" is devoted to the new forms of literature, music and painting that took root in Britain after World War I. But the old Victorian form of father, Sir George Sitwell, Bart., makes the other characters (even such brilliant ones as Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley and T. S. Eliot) look slightly dwarfish. Something of father Sitwell's impressiveness can be judged from the fact that when 24-year-old Evelyn Waugh, already a hardened connoisseur of the old regime, first laid eyes on him, Waugh simply became incapable of speech -"struck mute...
...With 46 features from 13 nations entered in the scramble for prizes, Louisiana Story won over such box-office boomers as Duel in the Sun, Gentleman's Agreement and The Big Clock. The Manchester Guardian wrote of the new Flaherty documentary: "The actions of these people, as Virginia Woolf once wrote of Homeric characters, 'seem laden with beauty because they do not know that they are beautiful...
...Including Virginia Woolf (then Stephen) ; TIME, April...