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...surprised beneficiaries of the estate of the late Albert H. Phillips of Eastbourne, England, but got no part of his estimated $76,000 cash bequests. Instead, "as a tribute of respect for their outstanding qualities of leadership," each was willed a watercolor painting by obscure 19th-Century Artist John Callow (for Roosevelt: New York Harbour; for Churchill: Fishing Boat...
...Abstract Art show was a glamorously complete record of the quarter-century since that September Morn of cubism: Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase. In later shows the Museum assembled Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, the works of Picasso. Over the years it has coyly flirted with lusty, callow, sometimes triumphant...
What gives this film its callow charm? It is based on realism and on the comedy and basic good nature of U.S. character, however sugared and caricatured. Mickey Rooney's imitation of a boy's good & bad manners aboard a train is a bit of universal human comedy which Rooney's broad-axed clowning recklessly highlights. The Andy Hardy pictures are practically the only contemporary screen scratchings into the Comstock lode of U.S. genre comedy. Bad as they are, they are the nearest screen equivalent to Charles Dickens...
Lessons from Oscar. Soon Gide's callow orthodoxy was replaced by a fanatical determination to speak and write the truth as he saw it, regardless of consequences. When Oscar Wilde met young Gide, the Irishman exclaimed: "I don't like your lips. They are straight like the lips of those who have never lied. I will teach you the art of lying. . . ." Wilde failed: but he encouraged young Gide's homosexuality...
...such rarity is the Oxford don, Clive Staples Lewis. In The Screwtape Letters (TIME, April 19, 1943) Author Lewis gave his readers Hell, and they liked it. Americans and Britons bought some 200,000 copies of these ironically instructive letters from an elderly devil in Hell to his callow young nephew on earth. But writers, as Dante and Milton knew, have usually felt more at home in Hell than in Heaven. Last week in Christian Behaviour (Macmillan; $1) Author Lewis succeeded in the much tougher task of making Heaven as readable as Hell...