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...last week by the Art Institute of Chicago and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art of a huge, joint retrospective show of Picasso for next autumn. And various other sources, including that vivacious storyteller, Gertrude Stein* have lately increased public understanding of a man whose life and painting explain each other...
Some courses are easy and others are difficult. This is not hard to explain on impeccably logical grounds: for there are varying intricacies of subject material, and there are varying demands made by different teaching methods. But here, even as in supreme court decisions, there is a question of relativity. For when a course lies prostrate below a certain respectable minimum of simplicity, logical apologists are confounded. There is nothing to be done but to call the course a "snap...
More shocks followed. Pennsylvania's Jim Davis had been counted on to leave his Republican friends and vote for the higher figure, in deference to the 81,000 WPAsters in his State. "Nay!" he cried. Said his angry Democratic colleague, Joe Guffey, going over to him: "Shall I explain your vote to the people of Pennsylvania...
...Pailthorpe-Mednikoff canvases were filled with these symbols. Some of them, such as safety pins, wheels and houses, were easily recognizable as childish carryovers. Others were less simple. Dr. Pailthorpe and Mr. Mednikoff were anxious to explain that this cockscomb meant that the little boy had killed his mother, and that that tree represented father chasing him around behind the house. Some of the symbols were obviously adult, obviously sexual...
Americans at Work (Sat. 7 p. m. CBS). Walt Disney's craftsmen explain what makes Mickey Mouse & Co. click...