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...three minutes of film, the flat dispassionate eye of the movie camera can disclose more about the kind of reality that appalls Guston than his whole exhibition has done. We are left with a group of sumptuously painted canvases, sometimes witty, occasionally moving, and for the most part caricaturally blunt. As political statement, they are all as simple-minded as the bigotry they denounce...
...child who is told that divorce came about because he was bad, Gardner has blunt advice: "Do not believe it. If one of your parents says such a thing, it usually means he has problems of his own that make it hard for him to see things the way they really are." Nor is "every bad thing" parents say about each other to be accepted uncritically: "Be very careful to believe only those things you are very sure of, or that you see yourself...
...Suez Canal ceasefire. Then last week Moscow vitriolically denied its role in any violation and accused the U.S. of "unscrupulous distortion of the facts." Secretary of State William Rogers in a press conference expressed strong "disappointment" with Moscow's role in the standstill breach. In unusually blunt terms, he said the Soviets' behavior has raised "some very serious questions about their intentions," and accused Russia of resuming cold war stridency...
...literary sins no "Western contemporary writer" would commit. The scholars are obviously trying to prepare readers for what they call their "unvarnished" version, but they seem to protest too much about the style of the ancient writers. After all, translators throughout the ages have had to deal with the blunt prose of Mark and the sometimes serpentine arguments and broken thoughts of Paul's letters...
Jacques Yves Cousteau, the renowned underwater explorer, has covered 155,000 miles of sea on film-making and oceanographic expeditions during the past 3½-years. Last week in Monte Carlo, he summed up what he had seen in glum, blunt terms: "The oceans are in danger of dying. The pollution is general...