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...Belgian Painter James Ensor is against reason; see ART, Grim Reaper...
...which has not had a reigning queen since Baudouin's popular mother, the lovely Astrid of Sweden, was killed in a 1935 Swiss auto accident. It was hoped that marriage would mellow the taciturn and glumly authoritarian manner of King Baudouin, and the royal wedding would help take Belgian minds off the bloody catastrophe of the Congo. The rest of the world experienced the warming reaction that seems to come, especially to democratic nations, with every pomp and circumstance of vanishing royalty. In this case there was a special cause for cheers: the Cinderella girl who couldn...
...Reason," said the Belgian painter James Ensor, "is the enemy of art. Artists dominated by reason lose all feeling." Ensor himself never ran the risk: in the 89 years he lived, he gave to the world a strange and eerie legacy that sometimes seemed to be the work of a madman. But though he shocked his contemporaries, he ranks today as the greatest Belgian painter of modern times. This week a good sampling of his work went on display at Manhattan's World House Galleries, and a handsome new book, James Ensor, by Paul Haesaerts (Abrams...
Except for a few excursions into Brussels, he mostly spent his life in the seaport of Ostend, where he was born in 1860. His father, raised in England and Belgium, and Belgian mother indulged him shamelessly. He lasted exactly two years in school, lived in a world of fairy tales, nightmares, the fascinating clutter of his parents' curio shop and an attic that was "full of horrible spiders, shells, old clothing the color of rust and blood, red and white corals, monkeys, turtles, dried mermaids and stuffed Chinamen...
...Next day in the Senate, with neither Kasavubu nor even Senate President Ileo himself daring to show up for the debate. Lumumba repeated his snow job with some added embellishments. He waved sheaves of money and held up a transistor radio, claiming they had been taken from a "Belgian spy," presumably a local white who later was produced quivering at a press conference. The Senators had to hear the explanation of the term "vote of confidence" eleven times before they understood what the ballots were for. But then all but nine supported Lumumba...