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man must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”) and experiment-
al novels (
Mrs. Dalloway
jumps back and forth in time) before filling her pockets with
stones and drowning herself in a river to silence the voices in her head.
In the darkest days at the beginning of World War II, with Nazi bombs raining on
a wounded London, Sir
Winston Churchill
(1874-1965) rallied his people with stirring
speeches from the Houses of Parliament. (“We shall fight on the beaches...We shall never
surrender!”) Britain's military chief, Field Marshall
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount
(1887-1976, known as “Monty”) points out the D-Day beaches of the decisive Allied as-
sault.
Sir
Laurence Olivier
(1907-1989), movie and stage actor, played everything from
romantic leads and Shakespeare heavies to character parts with funny accents. Sir
Noel
Coward
(1899-1973) continued the British tradition of writing witty, sophisticated com-
edies about the idle rich.
Henry Moore
(1898-1986), the most famous 20th-century
sculptor, combined the grandeur of Michelangelo, the raw stone of primitive carvings, and
the simplified style of abstract art.
Dylan Thomas
(1914-1953) wrote abstract imagery
with a Romantic's heart (“Do not go gentle into that good night...”). American-born poet
