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...TRIPLE THINKERS-Edmund Wilson -Harcourt, Brace ($2.75). Ten essays, literary and otherwise, by a leading U. S. critic...
...Baudelaire's imagination, sensuality had tragic grandeur. He lived with a fat mulatto and wrote the most magnificent French verse since Racine. He was also the only art critic of his day who recognized the greatness of Daumier. He died, broken by drink and opium, in 1867. Though not precisely a Bible to modern man, the Flowers of Evil has been abundantly profaned by illustrators who interpreted it as high-class pornography...
Last autumn English Critic W. J. Turner published a biography* of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (TIME, Sept. 6). To make his portrait of 18th-Century Composer Mozart accurate, Critic Turner pondered anew the numerous letters of the Mozart family. When the portrait was finished, it showed Mozart, not as a super-fastidious, classically-restrained courtier, but as a hearty, bluff personality...
Last week the taste of Mozart's letters offered by Critic Turner was extended into a whole banquet by the publication for the first time in English of the complete Mozart family correspondence.** Gathering, editing and translating the 600-odd letters of the collection had cost Emily Anderson, a publicity-shy British music-lover and scholar, ten years of scholarly effort. Readers of the newly-published letters found Critic Turner's impressions confirmed, found further that Composer Wolfgang Amadeus and his shrewd, harried Father Leopold Mozart were penetrating and sometimes irreverent observers of the manners of their time...
...responsible for the revision of the play, as well as its direction and staging, is Jack Munro, a 28-year-old Canadian actor and author who boasts "a crimson past but no connection with Harvard." In spite of this outside assistance, or quite possibly because of it, "The Critic" may be recommended as refreshing entertainment...