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What Convict Mooney's appearance last week amounted to was merely one more milestone in the weird marathon of his effort not to get out of jail-since he undoubtedly could get a parole-but to prove his innocence. The Assembly had subpoenaed Mooney because its strong labor bloc hoped that, if the whole body voted to give him a meaningless "legislative pardon," Governor Frank Merriam might give him a real pardon. Two days after hearing Convict Mooney, the Assembly went on record 41-10-29 as favoring a pardon, a few hours later the Senate defeated the motion...
...been a viola player for years, with many concert appearances as soloist and as a member of the Amar String Quartet of which he was a co-founder, he has written several concertos for the instrument of his choice. And his composition for unaccompanied cello demonstrates a comprehensive if weird understanding of this medium...
...would be amazed, as we are, at the weird descriptions of this instrument landing system that appear in our clippings. You'd never think that radio could do such wonderful things...
...doors on a willing world before there opened last fortnight in a small, select Galerie Beaux-Arts an exhibition with a broader appeal. This was the first international show of Surrealism (superrealism) ever held in the city where that movement was born.* Critics who have been forgetting about this weird school's pristine vigors were reminded of them forcibly when the opening night turned into a near riot, with 2,000 chittering Frenchmen milling around the gates and a troop of police in the courtyard...
Critics say that U. S. fiction began with the gothic romances of Charles Brockden Brown. They mean that it began with weird plots, wild scenes, frenzied speeches, mysterious encounters between mysterious characters. By next month Brown will have been dead 128 years, but U. S. fiction still has a gothic tradition that realists have never been able to conquer, running from Poe right down to the operatic extravagances of Thomas Wolfe. Last week its persistence was demonstrated by a long first novel that had all the ingredients of a gothic romance except a ghost, and which seemed all the more...