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When the bugle blows I awaken...
...Mexican painters are good. But Mexicans paint as naturally as U. S. adolescents shag. Usually their painting says something. Says Critic Helm: "The vitality of the new democratic race of Mexicans has been urgent enough to awaken even Indian artists from their natural drowsiness. To the spectator from the North, accustomed to a European tradition which has assumed technical excellence as an essential means, much of the Mexican painting may seem, at first glance, not altogether proficient. There is precious little virtuosity in Mexico, there is even too little sacrificial taking of pains. But more than twoscore living Mexican artists...
...pieced together a picture of his last months. It was a picture of monstrous ironies. Joyce, the young man who fled from Ireland to live by "silence, exile and cunning," died a destitute refugee from Paris. The mind that thought history "a nightmare to which I hope never to awaken," was caught in the fall of France. The man who resented even minor Government interference with his affairs, was caught in the wartime red tape of three Governments. The mind that created the Miltonic rhetoric, the subtle architecture, the poly-portmanteau language of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, found its last...
...perpetual silence," said Interior's Information Service, "many fish are quite noisy creatures." The grunt, for instance, makes a loud, grunting noise at times, and a school of them "playing around the bottom of an anchored boat on a still, tropical night will make enough noise to awaken the sleeping crew...
...conservative steps, came from the Japanese Army's Shanghai paper Sin Shun Pao: "We hate the United States, which forgets humane justice, more than we hate the Chungking Government. The time will come when either we swallow up the United States or the United States swallows us. Awaken, Asiatic peoples! We must speed up military and diplomatic measures and crush Anglo-American efforts to obstruct the New Order...