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Inspired Vacuity. The Phaidon Velazquez reproduces 13 of the painter's immortalizations of his royal master's vacuous stare, massy chin and handlebar mustachios which at night he kept in perfumed leather cases. There is also an inspired side show of infantas, royal dwarfs, idiots, buffoons and a little gallery of Velazquez' early, almost photographic genre pictures done in his precourt days when Velazquez used to brag: "I would rather be the first of the vulgar painters than the second of the refined ones." In strong contrast are a number of the passionless religious paintings of which...
...newspapers, but most do not believe what they hear or read. They think that the stories of Russian victories and the destruction of German cities from the air are propaganda. Since visitors are prohibited by the Geneva Convention from speaking to war prisoners, all the newsmen could do was stare in silence at the waxwork faces of the young Nazis, who silently stared back at them. Around a big concrete sun dial which they built they have inscribed: "For us the sun never goes down...
George Szell is a Jewish refugee from Nazi Europe and a fervent Hitler-hater. But his outward manner suggests the average American idea of the typical Nazi. He fixes his orchestra with a thick-spectacled stare that would do credit to a cinema Prussian. Some conductors get their effects by kindness and psychological subtlety; some approach the technique of a lion tamer. George Szell is among the latter. For him the Met's lions jump through their hoops under dazzling control...
...With red-rimmed eyes which know no sleep, the German soldiers stare into the night's terrible darkness, from which the enemy may appear at any moment. With ears clogged with mud, they listen to the distant roar of tank motors, which just as often come from the rear as from the front...
...grey-greens have been a nuisance to him. They are hard to adjust, complicated to lace (especially the left one), have a trick of starting to go adrift at crucial moments. Beyond that, a bumpily laced, hurriedly donned legging will inevitably bring a bark from the noncom, a frigid stare from the nearest officer...