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...watercolors (see opposite page), Homer made reality serve his intense colorism. From the late 1880s on, wherever he traveled, he snapped away with his Eastman Kodak No. 1. Using photos and drawing upon his early training as a lithographer, he captured actuality, studied its nature, and then bent it to his artist's will. In The Lookout, Homer used a Maine neighbor, John Gatchell, as his oilskinned model. He rummaged junk shops to find the bell that served to symbolize a stalwart ship struggling across a boiling sea, only visible itself as a glimpse of whitecaps...
...Love's Body, Brown cites a long catalogue of thinkers, from Roheim (Aphrodite: or The Woman with a Penis) to Zimmer (On the Significance of the Indian Tantric Yoga), to make his point that mankind is largely unaware of its own desires, is hostile to life, and is bent on self-destruction. Brown's cultists usually interpret his mystical ruminations as an attack on the accepted Christian concepts of history and behavior, but Brown really seems to advocate the complete abolition of 20th century civilization. If all trappings of civilization were put aside, he believes, all repressions would...
Kilty is marvelous at conveying Falstaff's weight; and when he drops his walking stick in the first tavern scene, he has trouble picking it up -- with hilarious effect. This stick, by the way, is his chief prop -- a little too short, and comically bent. It looks all the funnier when juxtaposed with the long straight staff carried by the prim and proper Chief Justice (Alexander Clark). When Kilty tries to use his stick as a sword, the result is worthy of W.C. Fields' famous attempt to play pool with a crooked...
...also universally known that in the changing political climate of the South, virtually no Congressman is safe from challenge in his home district. Thus last week Judge Smith, bent and slightly hard of hearing at 83, was forced to campaign for the Democratic nomination in the July 12 primary. Always a candidate but rarely a combatant, he has not had to hustle for primary votes since 1938, when F.D.R. set out to "purge" the balky conservative. Smith won that contest...
...rampaging inflation, President Humberto Castello Branco and his revolutionary military regime rammed through a tough universal income-tax law that set realistic tax rates* streamlined the archaic collection system, made tax dodgers liable to two years in prison. In to run the operation moved Orlando Travancas, 47, a reform-bent tax official who has weeded out dishonest inspectors, set up a school to train new ones, and installed ten computers to keep track of returns...