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...year-old patriarch of Spanish art critics limped scornfully out of Madrid's baroque Crystal Palace. What shocked him, and many another Spaniard, was an exhibit of religious art from Roman Catholic mission fields. Traditionalist Spaniards looked with anger upon the freedom with which the faraway artists had rendered scantily clad Virgins, Chinese Holy Families, Indian Gods squatting Buddha-like-all dominated by a huge statue of Christ dressed as a sannyasi (Hindu ascetic) renouncing this world...
...Century eye, just as artful and integrated as the modern exhibit. An expansive corner window, partly screened by spun-glass curtains, is the main feature of the modern room, where useless bric-a-brac has been replaced by Steuben's simple ash trays and an unconscionable quantity of crystal drinking equipment...
...Denver tower crackled into life. Captain Appleby was south of Cheyenne, Wyo. at 8,500 feet and letting down to land at Denver. That was all anyone ever heard from him. Twelve hours later, search planes spotted the still-smoldering wreckage splattered along the slopes of 10,500-foot Crystal Mountain near Fort Collins, Colo. The DC-6, some 40 miles off its course, had glided into the mountain side at the 8,600-foot level, furrowed a 50-foot-wide path through the pines, skipped a ravine and disintegrated in a burst of flame half a mile beyond...
...show produced one clean hit: Ravel's La Valse, danced by members of the New York City Ballet. As the camera caught the sweep and color of the dancers, the background came alive with the gold and crystal of chandeliers, the black and blue checkerboard of floor, the blue and silver of walls...
...This novelist turns from fighting G.I.s to political neurotics, sees little hope for the future in the left-wing crystal ball of his second book...