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Though the congress was the most liberal one ever, the far left was noticeable by its absence. Leaders such as Clark Kissenger of Students for a Democratic Society and Robert Parris of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee put in only the briefest of appearances...
Featured here are his color lithographs of 1961-1963, nine of which represent single figures in various stages of confusion with the world. The tenth is an excellent piece, Loisirs, where two living bodies float over a landscape. It is apparent from the briefest description that this artist's main concern is the bewilderment of modern man. Dubuffet believes that his images are truly realistic, and that prettier views are insane (a term which some critics have applied to him). His art is unique, both in its imagination and in the technical skills he brings...
...Every American. Faulkner did not know everything about the South-at least about the new South. He knew few Negroes well, and no civil rights leaders at all, except in briefest acquaintance. He never understood (or anyway portrayed) the urban and educated Negroes that have been the spearhead of the civil rights fight. He saw federal action on civil rights through a haze of fact and legend about the Reconstruction imposed from the North. He never appreciated the imperative need for legal sanction of a Negro's right to sit at a bar, get a haircut, swim...
...Gene Saks, not the actors, not the audience, takes the plot seriously. Of course, given this raw material such an approach is unavoidable and also the cause of the show's failure. A string of jokes with little purpose evokes only stock laughter. One laughs yet applauds for the briefest curtain call...
...Consultation. Washington sent Paris one of the briefest diplomatic notes on record, a curt, 150-word message that deplored the French maneuver as "unwise and untimely." Back came a five-line reply that stiffly acknowledged the U.S. note without bothering to give French reasons for the news. Presumably, De Gaulle was saving his explanation for one of his rare news conferences, scheduled for this week...