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...Left to Be Right. As Colonial Secretary, Iain Macleod liquidated African colonies at a clip that would soon have liquidated the Colonial Office. Diehard imperialists argued that he was selling the white man down the river, but Macleod's policy was built on bedrock Tory principles: duty and realism. With most young Britons, he believes Whitehall has a responsibility to bring the colonies to mature independence and membership in a multiracial Commonwealth. Pragmatically, he knows well that no force on earth can halt the tide of nationalism. But Macmillan realized that if Macleod had stayed on, his colonial policies...
Heiliger began his studies at the Berlin Academy in a bad year for German art: 1933, the year Hitler not only took over Germany but began to dictate to its artists. Heiliger was young, naive, and possessed of "the necessary skill to conform with the exaggerated realism the Nazis wanted." Fortunately, the Nazis still allowed a few top students to study abroad, and Heiliger was lucky enough to spend 18 months in Paris. There he met Sculptors Charles Despiau and Aristide Maillol, was elated by their preoccupation with the human figure. To Heiliger, nature, particularly the human figure...
...Russian exemplars were socialist realism and bad. Interestingly enough, the Mexican exhibit consisted mostly of work done in the same style. Prints by artists of the satellite nations were considerably freer in style and some-what more down to earth by subject matter-many were very moving. And in the objective work of all countries there was considerable special comment, much of it favorable to the United States...
...World War II. Starting Monday, October 16, is Vittorio de Sica's newest masterpiece of acting-direction: General Della Rovere, the story of a down-and-out Italian pimp who finally sees the light. Somewhat overdrawn, it's still in the best tradition of Italian realism. Evenings...
...political outlook on international affairs is one of extreme realism. As the papers say, Africa is not for the East or the West, it is for Africa...