Word: wyndham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soho Café. Yet he was never a stranger to London. The Soho restaurant called the Eiffel Tower knew his booming voice and august figure as well as it knew his colorful companions: Max Beerbohm, Tallulah Bankhead, Wyndham Lewis, the young Prince of Wales. In Ireland he spent his time with W. B. Yeats; in Paris he sought out James Joyce; in London he came to know Shaw, Wilde and Aldous Huxley. To women he was irresistible. It was said the female sitters would sometimes strip off their clothes without John's either asking or wanting them to. When...
...only one star (George Sanders) of second magnitude could not possibly be any good, M-G-M is hustling Village around the neighborhood circuits without even bothering to give it a Broadway sendoff. It is missing a good bet. Based on a clever thriller (The Midwich Cuckoos) by John Wyndham and made in Britain for about $500,000, Village is one of the neatest little horror pictures produced since Peter Lorre went straight...
...theory-kicking that made him a figure with impact. Still relatively unknown, he basks in the shadows of the men he influenced: T. S. Eliot, Yeats, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, Epstein, et al. In a model of graciously written, cleanly organized scholarship, Hull University Lecturer Alun R. Jones has produced a definitive critical biography that places Hulme where he belongs, as one of the shapers of 20th century consciousness...
...failed to see was that only slaves could live inside the authoritarian superstate. To Hulme, as Biographer Jones rightly notes, must go some of the ideological responsibility for the fact that his friend, the Spanish diplomat Ramiro de Maetzu, died fighting for Franco, that Pound embraced Mussolini, that Wyndham Lewis touted Hitler, and that Eliot's Idea of a Christian Society is a rigidly hierarchical blueprint for what his mentor called "the constant society." On the plus side, Hulme helped make neo-orthodoxy respectable, modern art approachable, and cyclical philosophies of history acceptable...
...When Wyndham Lewis' girl friend left him to become Hulme's fiancée, Lewis tracked his rival down and grabbed Hulme by the throat. Hulme picked Lewis up bodily, marched out to Soho Square and hung Lewis upside down on an iron railing by his trouser cuffs. In a graphic, impromptu way, the episode symbolized what one neo-orthodox nonconformist had done to his generation...