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Manhattan's 57th St. last week turned up an almost unheard-of Spanish painter, Arturo Souto, a solemn, round-bellied Galician. Unlike most celebrated modern Spanish artists (Picasso, Miro, Dali, Gris, et al.) Painter Souto has done most of his painting away from Paris. His heavily stippled, somber-colored paintings of street scenes and peasant figures look conservative alongside the geometric and psychopathic fantasies of his more famed countrymen. But his 'work is agreeably realistic and dourly, muddily individual...
...learn the Golden Rule--shameful because a man of dark hue is publicly shunned in a place devoted to the pursuit of truth and culture, a place where intellect raises man from his smallness--shameful because our motto so brazenly flaunts itself now, as obvious camouflage--"Erudito et religio!"--we have struck our colors, once more, to convention and prejudice! --Duke University Chronicle, April 4, 1941. THE HERMIT PLACE, by Mark Schorer. Random House, New York...
Sometimes they ventured to tell each other stories. Pollock writes cautiously: "It is said-I don't vouch for it-that when President Wilson et ux. were here Mrs. W. asked the Queen what she thought about the Freedom of the Seas, and the Queen answered that she had not quite made up her mind about mixed bathing." Both men were insatiable readers; but books were not an end in themselves but a part of life, and they treated them with less formality than they treated one another. Typical Pollock treatment...
...Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, the "new historians," notably Charles A. Beard. Aroused by such "frontier thinkers," Rugg decided that education needed frontier thinking too, helped launch the famed Teachers College group. For some ten years this group-Professors Rugg, William H. Kilpatrick, George S. Counts, Jesse H. NewIon, Goodwin Watson, et al.-held bimonthly discussions on "reconstructing" U. S. education, taught teachers a new jargon. In his book, Rugg proudly claims co-authorship of the phrase "child-centred school." Sample Rugg jawbreaker: "The American problem is to bring forth on this continent that civilization of economic abundance, democratic behavior and integrity...
...River Rats are a shabby proletarian confraternity, loosely organized into canoe clubs, whose lives and small earnings are wholly focussed on the floats, canoes, club dances, coving (river talk for necking et seq.} and races. To Ralph they represent that lowbrow, duty-destroying athletic aristocracy among whom most "nice" boys long to qualify. He wants intensely to be accepted as a rat. Harriet, who knows on which side of the tracks her future lies, wants him not to. Then Dutchy appears. A nice, hard blonde, the daughter of a fireman who drowns in the Charles, Dutchy is the essence...