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...FABULOUS LIFE OF DIEGO RIVERA, by Bertram Wolfe. The artist's life was like his murals: colorful, complicated and done on a grand scale. Though he was a loudly enthusiastic Communist for most of his life, his work was espoused by critics and capitalists rather than the masses, and Wolfe records every fierce conflict with both...
...FABULOUS LIFE OF DIEGO RIVERA by Bertram D. Wolfe. 457 pages. Stein...
Wolfe could. A friend of Diego's since the 1920s, when both were members of the Communist Party, and later -after his disenchantment-a brilliant writer on Communism (Three Who Made a Revolution), Bertram Wolfe in this biography has tried to untangle fact from fantasy. And yet the lies of this great, hulking 300 Ibs. of a man, believes Wolfe, are the key to his life and art. His dreams were more real to him than reality, and to him, all ideas were playthings. Said his third wife, Frida Kahlo: "He never told a lie that was stupid...
...John Bertram Phillips of Dorsetshire has a rare and felicitous talent: he can make St. Paul sound as contemporary as the preacher down the street. Seeking to "transmit freshness and life across the centuries," Phillips produced a New Testament in Modern English that abandoned archaisms in favor of unadorned clarity and read more like Lord Jim than King James...
...would be appreciated of the CRIMSON would dispense with its unnecessary, uninformed, and unintelligent comments on Bertram eating habits. Bertram Hall...