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Capitulation. The contagion of defiance spread from below ground to the surface. Passengers refused to board a London bus because it was "revoltingly grubby." The bus was promptly cleaned. Newspapers cheered on the mutineers. Cried the Sunday Graphic: "The time has come to insist on getting what you have paid for. In every place where the service is bad or inconsiderate, go and start a row. A big one. You'd be surprised how it pays off." Crowed the Sunday Dispatch: "The moral is-kick up a fuss wherever there is sloppiness or inefficiency. As big a fuss...
...issue, and includes three runners you normally find in The Advocate's stable. Editor James Manchester Robinson hasn't shortened his name by a syllable; but his judgment, or perhaps the material on hand, leapt far and handsomely (if you neglect his continued pre-occupation with poetry as a graphic device, so garishly splashed across the center-fold). Sandy Kaye, Arthur Freeman and Stephen Sandy contribute good stuff...
...interviewer (Mike Malice), a cow fan dancer (Dorothy LaMoo). He also has a mournful hound-dog named Edward R. Bow-Wow, who delivers historical newscasts over See It Now-Wow. But if TV is willing, Baird proposes something grander: serious news shows using puppets (Khrushchev, Dulles, et al.), with graphic, moving geopolitical maps. "Nothing to it," says Puppeteer Baird. "In this art, the whole world is at your fingertips...
MOSAICS OF ST. MARK'S (New York Graphic; $22.50) also suffers from a certain stuffiness of text, but its 44 big color plates are little short of perfection, do much to bring the Byzantine marvels of St. Mark's Cathedral down from the shadowy vaulted ceilings into the reader's lap. Many a tourist has stopped in Venice and visited its cathedral without ever dreaming that he stood at the heart of one of Byzantium's finest offshoots. This book should send him back once more...
...Universe; $10) among the handsomest efforts. Pelican Books offers a monumental study, ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY: 1600-1750, for $12.50. Collins has a NEW TESTAMENT (de luxe, $50) exquisitely illustrated with tipped-in reproductions from medieval manuscripts, and Praeger a compendium of ARTISTS' TECHNIQUES ($12.50). New York Graphic provides a large Henry Moore sketchbook of HEADS, FIGURES AND IDEAS at $30, and a handsome color survey of Pre-Hispanic Mexican painting at $18. Altogether, they are almost enough to make the armchair viewer feel pleasantly footsore...