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...spent as much as six months on a single drawing, plying pen & ink as minutely as an embroiderer does needle and thread. By including endless details in her early works, she achieved great mastery of textural effects. Her most recent drawings are done in half the time and are even more effective. Now she can make a single smudge of graphite do what required 100 pen strokes a couple of years ago. But her major works still resemble tapestries as much as anything; they are not easy to place in a specific tradition...
...innocent man to the guillotine "without some preliminary qualms of conscience"; the honest masses, who virtually cheer a vile crime because they think the criminal is one of them and because "a crime which outraged the peo ple in good society was not deserving of their protest." The thread of this dry, dispassionate satire hangs on the question: Will the murderer be caught? He is, but that hardly matters. What does matter is Novelist Aymeé's picture of provincial life. It is the prototype of a stock cliche of French humor, and has begun to yellow...
Through the departmentalized details of his proposals runs a clear, consistent thread, joining each fact and each measure with all the others. The thread is the general good. He has not thrown together a hodgepodge of group interests. Every proposal-especially the well-defined new stragetic program and the sections on the domestic economy-seems to have been tested by the standard of the whole nation's interest...
...rare these cases are, but they estimate the frequency as less (perhaps much less) than one in a million. The great majority of malformed infants die in the womb; others are fatally injured during delivery. And even when, rarely, they are born alive, the life hangs by a thread, and most doctors will not take heroic measures to preserve such a life when success can only prolong misery. Soviet physicians report that a double baby girl, similar to the Hartley case, survived for 13 months (in 1937-38); few survive even as long as this. By coincidence, a laborer...
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