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...musician thinks only a few bars ahead while improvising, Jackson envisions a whole piece in his head. Seated at the piano, he looks elegantly relaxed-but is usually as tense as a nightclub comic building for a saving laugh. Jackson's playing has the facile quality of an André Previn, but with it a far more propulsive drive. An Art Tatum-ish right hand embroiders the melody, and the tempo is always subject to change. Sometimes Jackson opens with eloquent slowness, then double-times the theme with marvelous results. Or he may start with a rocking jazz attack...
...still heartbreaking to read of the butchered-or merely disenchanted-talents who served an ignoble cause for noble motives. Here again is the sorry drama of betrayed idealism, told piecemeal before but never in such cool, meticulous detail. To André Malraux, who flew in combat, the Republican cause was man's hope. Wystan Auden, who drove an ambulance, melted his prosody...
Sumer: The Dawn of Art, by André Parrot. A handsome display of bookmaking devoted to some of the earliest art works fashioned by civilized...
...Illusions. Hardly anyone had predicted easy going for the President, even in friendly France. "The fellow who'll be doing all the talking." wrote Austin Wheatley in the Detroit News, "will be Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle. The New Frontiersman will run into a very old Frontiersman. He probably knows what he's up against-a man aloof, lonely, enigmatic, humorless, sometimes Machiavellian, sarcastic, self-confident, courageous, irritating, pigheaded, visionary, indispensable and a hard bargainer." Frank Conniff, national editor of Hearst papers, suggested more succinctly that Kennedy might find the old general "teeth-breaking...
Sumer: The Dawn of Art, by André Parrot. A handsome display of bookmaking devoted to some of the earliest art works fashioned by man in his first major civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Under the general editorship of André Malraux, Sumer is the panoramic premiere of some 40 volumes that promise to reduce the celebrated "Museum Without Walls" to paper...