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...clock daily schedule in a corner of his small, commonplace living room. Magritte considers Dali an excellent businessman ("he is rich") but has intense scorn for fellow Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux, who paints luscious nudes picking roses in classic landscapes, with now & then a streetcar lurking about in the background (TIME, Dec. 30). Painter Delvaux, Magritte thinks, "has exploited surrealism as he would have exploited pork-butchery...
...courses in the field are generally stiff and thorough. Men with a sizeable background in chemistry usually breeze through their first courses, but the pace gets progressively faster and the competition, notoriously grade-hungry, is enough to keep even a Conant on his toes...
Comp. Phil it is the other necessary number (Practices Phonetics), which was given by Rogers (Romance Languages and Literatures) last fall and will not reappear until 1948-49. Rogers knows his material well, and the course serves to give students a background in linguistic change and a chance to try out orally some of the knowledge gained, especially in the Romance languages...
...House of Mist and Señorita Bombal have a common background in the lake region of southern Chile, where it rains so hard (104 inches a year) that mist is almost a sign of fine weather. There María-Luísa's heroine, Helga, a love child, falls in love with Daniel, the boy next door. But Daniel marries Helga's cousin Teresa, who commits suicide. Helga becomes his second wife. Because she knows that Daniel still loves Teresa, she spends a night with a handsome interloper. Later, Daniel falls in love with Helga...
With Cathleen O'Conner, John Mannick '49, and Anna Prince, Radcliffe '48, among those feateured in the production, Idler's second presentation of the year is "the best" of Robinson's comedies, according to John V. Kelleher, assistant professor of Modern Irish Literature and History, whom Idler consulted for background material...