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...output small, his conduct resolutely inconspicuous, Gris has long been the least-known major French artist of the 20th century, and the claws of myth have never got a hold on the cool, highly wrought, intellectually guarded surface of his art. Nor, until now, has his adopted country honored his mem ory with an official show. The gap has at last been filled by a compendious Gris retro spective at the Orangerie in Paris (through July 1), organized by France's Chief Curator of Museums Jean Leymarie...
Thus, in End of an Exceptionally Short Affair, the opening story of this well-wrought collection, Brendan Gill consciously gives his game away. All the relationships he examines are, as his title indicates, loving ones. The term is humanely extended to include not only lovers but also sexual partners, parents and children, employers and employees, and even masters and pets. In each, Gill searches out a truth that is greater than kindness. Usually it turns out to be the painful truth that lies, betrayal, jealousy and sometimes violence not only co-exist with love, but also grow imperceptibly...
...West Egg was as spiritually bankrupt as it was materially rich. Jumping off place and last stop for the ambitions and wealthy, it was for them a moral wasteland. Even as Gatsby wrought West Egg in the image of his dreams; his heaven on earth it could not be. More could it be his Hell, his dreams as phantoms, his mansion their graveyard. Embalmed in midsummer mists, the place even looked something of a mirage: shimmering on Saturday evenings with wealth and youth and beauty, and so heavy, up close, with the heat and sweat of life; dream and disillusionment...
...spent in serious indulgence. The drive down to U.Va. (with a stop at Princeton, which he had never seen) was entertaining. It was also the first time he had driven outside of New England. Police cars have red lights instead of blue. His school friends noticed a definite change wrought by college; but they had changed too, so maybe it was all equal...
...vintage year so far for Yale University. First came the revelation that Yale library's famous "Vin-land map" may be nothing more than a wondrously wrought forgery (TIME, Feb. 4). Then last week came a Connecticut Supreme Court challenge to Mory's, the all-male New Haven drinking club, which must now fight to maintain its private-club status in order to continue refusing to admit women (a policy since 1886). The "gentlemen songsters off on a spree" proclaimed in Yale's Whiffenpoof Song may be presented with the uncomfortable choice of finding a watering hole...