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Many of the individual chapters are subtly, brilliantly managed; here & there (as in Vol. VIII, entitled Verdun) they blend into a more or less related whole. But ordinarily Author Romains moves his characters about by whim or wind, endows his chance encounters, political musings, philosophic sermons, fancy seductions with no more apparent interrelation than that of news stories in the daily press...
When Renoir wrote those words (in 1882) his deft blottings pleased his impressionist friends but not himself. Like Monet, Sisley and Pissarro, Renoir had learned to see nature as a dazzling cobweb of colored light, where the shapes of things melt and blend like mist. But at 40 the spare, scraggle-bearded painter grew suddenly sick of mistiness, went digging for solid forms. He became a student again, and spent the next two years in life classes, learning to draw...
...Curiously enough, Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was at first dismayed. . . . Further study made the Foreign Office realize, however, that Byrnes's tactics were a remarkable blend of subtlety and realism. Therefore the economic unification of the British and American zones of occupation is now being negotiated here in Berlin, and will soon be undertaken...
...Frenchman who has lived in Japan since he was four. His show, on display last week, had the imposing sponsorship of the U.S. Fifth Air Force. An exhibition of 67 wood-block prints (and 50 paintings) of Ukiyo-e ("mundane life") subjects, it was a blend of East and West...
...bookstalls: Corky the Killer, a Story of Syphilis (American Social Hygiene Association; $1). The author (and illustrator) was Dr. Harry A. Wilmer, a young scientist who took five degrees in eight years at the University of Minnesota. His book is a slightly bawdy blend of fact & fancy that seeks by cartoons and comic-strip dialogue to tell about the syphilis spirochete and how it works...