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...Reynolds, too often sacrificed for a slick and fawning elegance. His March of the Guards Towards Scotland, an action-filled canvas of the departure of George II's soldiers to put down Bonnie Prince Charlie's Highlands uprising of 1745, is ironic Hogarth realism at its sharpest. Hogarth's most famous oil, The Shrimp Girl, is missing from the show, but a gently smiling Mrs. Salter and the portrait of Hogarth's niece, Mary Lewis, have much of the same spontaneous, light-brushed charm. In his self-portrait, The Painter and His Pug, Hogarth seems...
...four by-elections last week, Canadian voters gave their Liberal government one of its sharpest wrist-slappings in 16 years of power. Opposition Tories won all four. The winners...
...sharpest interchanges, in a hearing where there were few, came right at the start. California's William F. Knowland, the best prepared questioner on the Republican side, demanded that the State Department release for publication a directive it had sent out in December 1949 declaring that "Formosa has no special military significance," and ordering its missions to combat "the mistaken popular conception of its strategic importance to the U.S. defense in the Pacific...
Died. Frederic C. Dumaine, 85, one of the sharpest of modern-day Yankee trader capitalists; of bronchial pneumonia; in Groton, Mass. At 14 he went to work for the giant Amoskeag cotton mills (for $4 a week); within a few years he was operating in the fishing business, shipbuilding, watchmaking, steamship lines, truckmaking, banking. His biggest coup came in 1948, when he quietly bought enough stock to control the $428 million New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (which had kicked him off its board of directors in 1947), before its management knew what was happening. In taking over, Citizen Dumaine...
...follows is caused as much by Irish whisky as English bullets. It is this mixing of noble and ignoble motives that gives Insurrection its salty, human tang. By sticking close to the theme and laying it out in the plainest of prose styles, Author O'Flaherty gives the sharpest possible picture of Dublin bursting its buttons, its streets crisscrossed with an interweaving mob of poets, patriots, drunks, floozies, looters and sharpshooters. The result is not a great novel, nor even a very remarkable one, but it does suggest that the "Troubles" may go marching along in fiction as indomitably...