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...they would have fallen all over themselves to be friends." The most friendly folks he met aboard the Mary: "The stewards and the waiters." ∙∙∙ On his promise to be a good boy, Italy's charm-loaded Movie Director Roberto Rossellini (TIME, May 27 et seq.) got a three-month extension of his visa to stay in India, busied himself again by day shooting documentary films in the sweltering humidity of Bombay. As proof of his good intentions, Rossellini abandoned his suite in the Taj Mahal Hotel that connected with the suite of exotic Sonali Das Gupta...
...rushed to rebroadcast this week the suspenseful full-hour reconstruction of how Columbia Lecturer Jesús de Galíndez, a Basque, was kidnaped from Manhattan, spirited out of the country and apparently murdered because of his opposition to Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo (TIME, April 2, 1956 et...
...mark the end of an intellectual era-the era of Utopian belief in man's earthly salvation through socialism and sociology, related to the igth century evolutionary notion that history is a process of perpetual improvement. That era's brilliant, fashionable upper-class leftists-Auden, Ishenvood, Spender et al.-are dismissed by Amis and Co. as playboys on a slumming party. The "new men" have actually been poor, and understandably they smirk when they pick up the memoirs of a posh erstwhile pink like Philip Toynbee (son of A Study of History'> Arnold J.) and read...
Recently, after a group of newsmen had bombarded Lacoste with questions, a U.S. correspondent strolled with Madame Lacoste through the gardens of Algiers' Palais d'Eté, rich with the strong colors and heavy scents of the North African spring. Enthused the correspondent: "Isn't this a wonderful place?" Madame Lacoste looked at him oddly, spat out: "I hate it, I hate it. My husband is a Socialist who spent all his life trying to help people. Now he is here killing people." Madame Lacoste burst into tears. For the French it was a tormented spring...
...insistence that the nude is one of the most austere problems of design. The bulk of his analysis argues the continuity of this almost abstract design in the nude throughout Western art. He finds echoes of the design of the influencial classical works--Knidian Aphrodite, Laocoon, Apollo Belvedere, et al.--repeated and reworked, reasserting themselves after generations or even centuries. The most striking example of this that he gives is a comparison of a nude on a 4th century Greek mirror with a Picasso line drawing. Almost every gesture finds its antecedent and is copied and built upon almost unconsciously...