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...America triumphant, clear-eyed and unafraid. It smells as sweet as a new-mown field of clover." Less partial critics still found much to praise, noted a steady improvement from 1934, agreed that even if the SFA has yet to uncover a genius, it has uncovered plenty of talent...
Herr Matejko, an official Austrian staff artist in World War I, perfected his technique in the trenches and has again been given fullest scope for his talent by the German High Command. Possessor of a fluent romantic style, Theo Matejko works usually in charcoal. Aged 45, famed in Berlin as the driver of a white Mercédès racing car, he has flown this year with Nazi sea raiders but does not claim to have seen the alleged bombing of Ark Royal. This may account for considerable artistic license...
...Take the High Road is capable of interesting a far more general, more sedentary audience than those whose interest in flying is already active. For Author Langewiesche has an uncommon talent for conveying, not merely describing, physical sensations. He is, moreover, both as airman and writer, a skilled amateur, with the wisdom never to desert his amateur standing. Of the 25 photographs, most are well above the shoddy average for book illustration, a few are magically good...
People v. Politics. The Swedish people, as understanding Gustaf V likes to emphasize, have a national talent for what has been called "mass individualism." In the early years of his reign Swedes got the idea that Capital with its trusts and combines was milking the People with artificially high prices, but the Swedish reaction to this was not to set up Labor as a counter-demagogue. Instead, taking its famed Middle Way, Swedish consumers banded together in the Kingdom's now widely known cooperatives. These in effect yardstick the food prices that can be charged in Sweden, for their...
...nearly 400 pages about these embattled primitives, Author Cheney never once skids into histrionics, bitterness or those tones of romantic compassion which mar the larger talent of Steinbeck. He presents these types of inarticulate and stony heroism not as sentimental literary properties but as if they had a dignified, unobstreperous standing in human existence. With a constant and expert attentiveness to exactitudes of speech, gesture, action, he writes of violence (a negress cutting a white man's throat), horror (a father incapable of restraining his vomit over the 19-day corpse of his son), brutality...