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TIME'S article (May 27) on Partisan Review contained an erroneous implication in regard to my approach as a critic which I should like to correct. You wrote that "at the peak of Partisan Review sophistication stands Art Critic Morris, whom practically nothing pleases." Had you examined my articles in the magazine you would have seen that I have expressed pleasure in a great many types of art, from Picasso, Hartung, Demuth, and American abstract painters to certain operas of Strauss and the dancing of Shankar. I should judge that perhaps 80% of my articles have been laudatory (favorable...
...that had come to its great climax in the assassin lunge of Italy upon stricken France. Three months ago, said the President, Mussolini had sent him word that Italy was determined to prevent the spread of war to the Mediterranean. The U. S. Government had concurred, had offered to approach Britain and France-about Italy's territorial claims, about the creation "when the appropriate occasion arose-quot; of a stable world order through reduction of arms and the establishment of a more liberal international economic order. "The Government of Italy has now chosen to preserve what it terms...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's approach to the Edison legend is somewhat different. Installment No. 1, Young Tom Edison, showed its protagonist (Mickey Rooney) leading the life of an early Christian martyr in Port Huron, Mich. Sufficient time having elapsed since young Mickey Rooney steamed away to glory, leaving behind young Edison's harrowing boyhood, the public mind passes painlessly to Installment No. 2, solid, literal and prosaic, with big budget written over every sequence. It also has sterling, matter-of-fact Spencer Tracy making a brave, respectful effort at verisimilitude by looking a little wild at moments...
...letter of October 4th to the former Republican Presidential candidate, President Conant approved embargo repeal and pleaded for an unemotional approach. He said of the Allies, "I believe if these countries are defeated by a totalitarian power, the hope of free institutions as a basis of modern civilization will be jeopardized...
Appealing for a "clear-headed, realistic approach," the letter went on to say, "the question is, is it to the long run advantage of the United States to sell arms," and it concluded, "to depart from our historic policy and by so doing handicap those who are fighting for the ideals we share, seems to me inconsistent...