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...Maharaja of Kapurthala's daughter inlaw, Princess Brinda, preparing to return home, looked back on the winter in Manhattan, submitted a visitor's impression to a New York Post reporter. "New York men and women," said she, "are lovelorn, forlorn, and emotionally torn. The men don't understand their women, and the women don't understand their men." Solution? "I suggest that your husbands and wives sit together silently in meditation for at least one hour...
...honky-tonks and clip joints have vanished from Twelfth Street; the bawdy houses on Cherry Street are now mostly respectable boarding houses. The raucous Chesterfield Club, where the waitresses wore nothing at all between their pumps and their permanents, has been torn down...
Ruin on the Table. His still lifes at the Whitney might each have been assembled from a ruin and tied together with string -pipes, masks, torn letters, weather vanes and carnival prizes teetering on Victorian tables. Kuniyoshi's figure paintings all show the same girl (who resembles none of his models) with black bangs, pinched features, a slack, heavy body and long, almost painfully sensitive hands. She sits motionless and exhausted, her narrow dark eyes smudged with dismay, or wanders across desolate landscapes...
...Communism, which is another of our latter-day religions, is, I think, a leaf taken from the book of Christianity-a leaf torn out and misread. Democracy is another leaf from the book of Christianity, which has also, I fear, been torn out and, while perhaps not misread, has certainly been half emptied of meaning by being divorced from its Christian context and secularized; and we have obviously ... been living on spiritual capital, I mean clinging to Christian practice without possessing the Christian belief...
...mother, obsessed with her search for the child that she cannot believe has died, walks the endless, desolate German Autobahnen from D.P. camp to D.P. camp. The child, who has had his power of speech, his very memory torn out of him, is a pure derelict, looking for nobody and nothing beyond the next mouthful of bread...