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...subtlety, working at a pace that might have killed a young Hemingway. He wrote The Ambassadors in eight months, and his other two masterpieces, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl, at the rate of one a year. His longish (and perhaps best) short story, The Beast in the Jungle, seems to have been composed in three days...
Yeats' rough beast again? No, Kazan's - a shaggy stage prop animated by mechanical grunts and dramatizing the sort of pseudo realism that Vivien Leigh may have had in mind when she once described Kazan as "the kind of man who sends a suit out to be cleaned and rumpled...
...latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stands this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change...
...Reason: the Gobbleglops, which look like pigs with bunny tails, gobble up, in the words of Mammy Yokum, "all glop, irregardless . . . They's natcheral-born incinerators. Thass why glop goes in 'em an' none comes out!!" Pogo has been invaded in recent months by an odd beast, half Great Dane and half hyena, that looks and alliterates like Spiro T. Agnew, by a bulldog that might be taken for J. Edgar Hoover, and by a pipe-smoking, improbable baby eagle that might fool even Martha Mitchell into thinking she had seen John. This trio of animal crackers...
...Artichokes. No Italian painter less resembled the Renaissance ideal of the gentleman genius than Caravaggio. His luck was as foul as his temper. He was in some ways the first Bohemian artist, and he thrashed about in the dogma-bound and ceremonious society of Counter-Reformation Rome like a beast in a net. In 1604 Caravaggio was haled into court for assaulting a Roman waiter who had brought him a dish of artichokes, six cooked in oil and six in butter. Caravaggio asked which were which. "Taste them," retorted the waiter, "and you will see." Caravaggio jumped to his feet...