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...these questions up the fashionable modern Parnassus-inhabited by Dostoevsky, Kafka, Gide, and all manner of existentialists. In the end, a little existentialist moss clings to his rolling stone, and Camus achieves his answer: "Crushing truths perish by being acknowledged . . . There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn." Sisyphus has achieved "a total absence of hope (which has nothing to do with despair)." Rope or Cravat? While it is no news, of course, that French intellectuals of the Left have left the church, a lot of people will wish that they would stop arguing so noisily...
...heat of summer, when the American League pennant race was still relatively cool, a grey-thatched seer named Casey Stengel squinted into the future. He saw his New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians scrambling through the stretch drive toward the flag. "That Cleveland," he said, with magnificent scorn for the team that last year had beaten him out of his sixth championship in a row. "I hope everybody beats them. Cleveland! All they got is Wynn and Score for pitchers. Detroit! They been a disappointment. But they'll be doing me a favor if they beat Cleveland...
...miraculous bounce back to the high wall of fame? In recent months, Frank Sinatra has managed to irritate a crowd of 10,000 in Australia, sue a well-known producer for breach of contract and make it widely known that he "would rather punch him in the face," display scorn in public for Marlon Brando, alienate the affections of Sam Goldwyn, mount a wide-open attack on another entertainer in a prominent newspaper ad ("Ed Sullivan, You're sick . . . P.S. Sick! Sick! Sick...
...themselves with abstractions such as hooked rugs and patchwork quilts, or semi-abstractions such as duck decoys. Last week the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, N.H. staged a 19th-century landscape exhibition called "Artists in the White Mountains" that was bound to draw praise from contemporary amateurs and scorn from fashionably "modern" painters. The pictures were not, on the whole, outstanding, but they showed the early history of an American painting tradition that flourishes today at the grass-roots level. Nothing can down...
...Dance Is Religion. The couple formed a school, Denishawn, which lasted some 16 years, until Ted and Miss Ruth separated (though not legally) in 1931. Shawn next flouted the opposition of backers and booking agents to rescue male dancers from general scorn as sissies and mere props for female dancers. From 1933 to 1940 he successfully toured the country with his troupe of male dancers. But with World War II the draft made short work of this project. Shawn himself danced and directed shows at Keesler Field, Miss. Since the war he has devoted himself to building up Jacob...