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Critic Eric Bentley once nominated him for a Nobel Prize. Theatre Arts printed his Pantagleize last summer, with an awed introduction by young Playwright Jack Richardson. As is necessary for any great name about to be "discovered," he has his complement of American professor-knights, who, while constantly deploring a world that has taken insufficient notice of their writer-king, are always ready to skewer anyone else who dares to mention the hallowed name...
...from Squaresville. The company's 1963 line marks a brave attempt to change young minds. What Romney did for the Rambler was to build a loyal following to whom its unchanging, old-fashioned looks seemed a comfortable complement to economy and leonine performance. But he and others at AMC began to worry that this philosophy appealed almost exclusively to the 40-and-over age group, and that most younger buyers thought the Rambler was from Squaresville...
...would make "the ownership of international corporations truly international." Before 2,500 delegates from 50 nations who attended the Eighth International Congress of Accountants in Manhattan last week, Donner argued that stock ownership of worldwide companies by the citizens of the countries where they operate would be a "natural complement to the rapidly widening acceptance of free world trade...
Both men seem to have transcended their past careers with this picture, finding in each other just the proper complement to their own failings. Resnais gained great fame by directing Hiroshima, Mon Amour. In it, he showed all sorts of technical ability with flashbacks and composition, but he never seemed able to integrate this talent with Marguerite Duras' rather somnolent script. Robbe-Grillet, on the other hand wrote novels that yearned for visual expression. In La Jalousie, for instance, he spends most of his time painting in the very smallest details of a banana plantation. Amid the minutiae, the author...
...complement to the exhibition the Chrysler Museum has several pieces of sculpture on display, including one of four existing young ballet dancers by Degas and a variety of pieces by Rodin. For devotees of assemblage, Kearney's "Chicken Age" will rattle up and down and around at the press of a button. The message of Province town this summer is that in the still shifting sands of artistic fortune the critic is all too prone to narrowness of vision in judging his contemporaries. But the Chrysler exhibit also presents a historical perspective which the critic can survey and begin...