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...these scenes of Greenwich Village bohemia were all Demuth did, he would be remembered as a minor aesthete, somewhere between Aubrey Beardsley and Jules Pascin, though arguably much superior to the latter. But Demuth was, by any standards, an exceptional watercolorist, and his still lifes and figure paintings, with their wiry contours and exquisite sense of color, the tones discreetly manipulated by blotting, are among the best things done in that medium by an American...
...unusually emotional courtroom finale, the Pollards pleaded desperately for clemency. But despite the fact that Pollard entered a guilty plea last summer and since then had been cooperating to some degree with the Government in fingering the Israeli officials with whom he had worked, U.S. District Court Judge Aubrey Robinson Jr. concluded that Pollard's crime merited the harshest punishment the court could impose...
...When difficulties arise in rooming groups, it's because of personalities. I have never known a difficulty to arise because of gender" says Anne Aubrey, assistant to the master of Mather House. "People think it through very carefully, and they're prepared for any inconveniences...
...sequel does not depend on a familiarity with its predecessor, but such knowledge can hardly hurt. It is helpful, for instance, to understand that Piers Aubrey, who has deserted his wife and four children shortly before This Real Night opens, was not simply "a gambler" as he is subsequently described, but a crusading newspaper editor with a penchant for ruinous plunges in the stock market. Members of his family mourn the disappearance of a good man and suffer at the realization that his reason for departing was accurate: they are better off financially without...
West is rarely ranked with the foremost English novelists of this century: Lawrence, Forster, Woolf. For one thing, she turned her pen to too many tasks outside the realm of fiction; for another, she remained true to tradition in an age that gloried in breaking the molds. Rose Aubrey notes: "I am writing all this down in full knowledge that it will not now seem important, for the reason that that is just what marks off that past from our present. Everything was then of importance." This qualified apology sounds like a reply to her friend and rival Virginia Woolf...