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Neither selfless love nor old-fashioned romantic love gets much of a chance in these stories. Their themes can be banal, as in He, which has a pathetic and overworked English shrew driving her husband into the arms of another woman but wanting him back at any cost. Sometimes the habit becomes just plain infidelity, as in Getting Off the Altitude. In A Mild Attack of Locusts, the habit turns into love of the land, even when the African locusts make the land a crushing burden. A female leftist in The Day Stalin Died has the party habit...
This beat-generation soap opera is strung together with a brassy and banal score by Composer Michel Magne, dressed in sets by Painter Bernard Buffet, and choreographed (by Americans John Taras and Don Lurio) for the most part like a Broadway musical. Visually (and for the box office), its handsomest parts belong to a splendidly configured blonde named Noelle Adam in a seductress role that fits her like a leotard. Best dancer in the company proved to be a regular of the Royal Danish Ballet named Toni Lander, who managed as the wife to make her final-act love scene...
...same time advance knowledge. Of course, howls going up would make the mountaintops rock. The superfluous always howl when their milk is cut off. For the academic year of 1957-58, the education department of the University of Texas lists 351 courses. They are all to make teachers more banal-minded. God pity your pupils; don't blame them for not being educated. What a teacher needs, aside from having sense and character, is basic knowledge in history, science, languages, literature, the fundamentals. All a would-be teacher gets out of education is palaver...
...journey conducted by the man who, more than any other, did the changing. Picasso himself obligingly recalls his point of departure with an early canvas. Le Moulin de la Galette (see opposite), painted when he was 19 and a fiery-eyed Spanish provincial on his first visit to Paris. "Banal but talented," pronounced Painter Amedee Ozenfant, "and that's how it should be. A beginner is not a master...
...European concept of student action is one which is unfortunately foreign to Harvard. We envision ourselves as scholars isolated from the banal world of national and international affairs. We are above such trivia...