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Divorced. By Suzy Parker, 28, angular, red-haired cinemactress and fashion model: Pierre de la Salle, 33, French journalist-playboy; after six years of marriage, one child; in Paris; on grounds of incompatibility. Said Suzy before the couple separated last year: "I've been told I can't cook, I can't sew, and I'm not fit to be a wife . . . It's O.K.; I'm playing along with the game, and when the right moment comes I'll let him have it right between the eyes...
This restrained, reasoned challenge of Prior's conversations and lectures commands remarkable attention, for his sharp angular features and high, yet ever controlled voice communicate the message in a direct, compelling fashion that even those in complete disagreement must respect. You won't find a 300-voice choir or mass conversions at his lectures in Agassiz this week, but you will encounter an evangelism that is forthright and intellectually honest, rare attractions in the circus world of American evangelism...
Schiele's paintings are anything but pleasant. His people (see color) are angular and knobby-knuckled, sometimes painfully stretched, sometimes grotesquely foreshortened. His colors are dark and murky, and his landscapes and cityscapes seem swallowed in gloom. But he painted some of the boldest and most original pictures of his time, and even after nearly half a century, the tense, tormented world he put on canvas has lost none of its fascination...
...Forbes' reading of the Magnificat was brisk and business-like, but not much else. The singing was often angular and disjointed; and the orchestra had enough trouble merely trying to follow the beat. Neither of the two seemed at all at ease with the other, and both together produced a rawness of tone that is often the product of an insufficient number of joint rehearsals...
...most part the effect was spare and angular-a little like the small-toned, pointillistic compositions of Anton von Webern...