Word: booked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traveled on his lonely way is shown by the largest-ever collection of Dove's work now starting a crosscountry tour at Manhattan's Whitney Museum, and a new book by Art Critic Frederick S. Wight (Arthur G. Dove; University of California; $2). Together they go far to establish Dove's status as the U.S.'s first abstract painter and a pivotal figure in contemporary...
Goldilocks (book by Walter and Jean Kerr; music by Leroy Anderson; lyrics by the Kerrs and Joan Ford) takes place in 1913, in pioneer cinema days when redskins were swarming all over Fort Lee. The show itself concerns a short-on-cash, long-on-ego moviemaker and a sizzling-tongued actress he corrals for shotgun movie heroics on the eve of her society marriage. Communicating by insult, the two keep throwing knives at each other without for a long time realizing that they are actually Cupid's darts...
...supped so full of horrors that it has all but digested its conscience. The age prattles of guilt, yet rarely feels it. Man's inhumanity to man has become not so much a cause for tears as merely another Cause. To get beneath this thick-skinned indifference, a book need not be a masterpiece, but it must speak the language of the heart so guilelessly as to make sophistication a mockery and callousness a crime. Such a book, and a small masterpiece, is Michel del Castillo's Child of Our Time...
...gradually lost control of their natural functions. Tanguy kept up his courage by believing that it was all a "mistake," and that once the authorities found out that he was not Jewish they would send him back to his mother. The word "mistake" recurs through Del Castillo's book and picks up the same rhetorical power and irony that the words "honourable men" do in Mark Antony's funeral oration, rising at last to an almost cosmic indictment of a universe in which such monstrous "mistakes" can happen...
What happened to Tanguy at the Nazi camp adds little to the all too familiar living-death literature. What gives it a special horror in this book is that it all happens to a little boy. Tanguy would surely have died but for a German friend named Gunther who mothered him, fired his flagging will to live, and, before his own death, left the boy a matchless maxim: "Leave hate to those who are too weak to love...