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...Worker is one of eleven Communist periodicals still published in the U.S. Once a daily with 100,000 circulation, it now struggles into print only twice a week. It is a chronic beggar, surrounding its dialectic with incessant pleas for cash. Ads come hard. Its chief, and sometimes its only, account is Harry's Clothes Shop on Third Avenue, an establishment that knows an out-at-elbows tovarish when it sees one, and offers him suits for $10 to $15, alterations free. The Worker's editor is James Edward Jackson Jr., 48, a mustached man who rose...
...effort of will. What was so unusual about Renoir was the grace with which he bore the weight of genius. He married once and well, reigned without thunder as the head of a large, adoring household, and could always take time to speak to a stranger or persuade a beggar to accept a gift. He was, of course, frequently taken advantage of; after his paintings began to sell, chiselers took up the habit of bringing obvious Renoir forgeries to his door, knowing that he would obligingly "correct"-that is. repaint-the canvases and give them back. The painter saw through...
...guard who stood out above the field this season was Endicott Peabody of Harvard who might be described in Kipling's "Fuzzy-wuzzy" phrase as an "inja-rubber idiot on the spree" or a big, fast-moving beggar who broke practically all the hostile squares...
...Tagore) is an incarnation of a goddess. The girl, eager to please, allows herself to be decked out in flowers and jewels, to be ensconced in an altar outside her father-in-law's house where streams of peasants and holy men come to make obeisance. When a beggar's sick grandson recovers in her presence, the event is hailed as a miracle, and even the girl begins to doubt her own mortality...
This is rural tragedy; by squeezing humanity in a Granadan village into an even more primitive lump than it actually is, Lorca wanted to fill his stage with constricting unreality: characters talk to each other in indirect but elemental metaphors, and one character, Death as a beggar-woman, actually exists as such a metaphor. Even the Moon comes on to make a speech. The simple trouble is that like nearly all rural tragedy Blood Wedding is the sort of melodrama into which actors are reluctant to empty their energies, and that therefore strikes audiences as faintly embarrassing vulgarity...