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...Monk's House, near the village of Rodmell, Sussex. There was plenty of action, with airplanes frequently roaring overhead, dropping incendiaries. Virginia helped to give first aid. When a bomb demolished her London home, destroying valuable murals by Duncan Grant and her sister, Vanessa Bell (wife of Art Critic Clive Bell), she observed: "Every beautiful thing will soon be destroyed...
...Many a critic condemned U. S. policy as too plodding. Many more thought it saddled the U. S. with moral commitments that it could not fulfill, or could fulfill only by an expenditure of blood and treasure out of all proportion to the gain. How could the many Governments in exile be restored to power? How could Hitler be overthrown without a U. S. expeditionary force? Colonel Lindbergh asked: What plan did the U. S. have for making itself effective in Europe? Other isolationist writers put a sharper question: How could supplying Britain with the "tools" do more than prolong...
...easel painting is running full blast. A flourishing group of some 40 able painters, including Abstractionists Carlos Orozco Romero and Carlos Merida, splashily realistic Jesus Guerrero Galvan and Federico Cantu, are beginning to be known in the U. S. Among the new ones touted by Critic Helm are Antonio Ruiz, who paints street scenes in a Covarrubias-like style, and 21-year-old Guillermo Meza, who took up painting be cause he didn't have enough money for mandolin lessons, and who is "undoubtedly going to be the successor of Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros...
...Mexican painters are good. But Mexicans paint as naturally as U. S. adolescents shag. Usually their painting says something. Says Critic Helm: "The vitality of the new democratic race of Mexicans has been urgent enough to awaken even Indian artists from their natural drowsiness. To the spectator from the North, accustomed to a European tradition which has assumed technical excellence as an essential means, much of the Mexican painting may seem, at first glance, not altogether proficient. There is precious little virtuosity in Mexico, there is even too little sacrificial taking of pains. But more than twoscore living Mexican artists...
Mentioned by one prominent local critic as "the most promising literary artist to have passed through Harvard since T. S. Eliot, "The Gid" is best known for his ventures into musical comedy...