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Since the war, particularly, the Music Building has been an extremely busy place. Several voluminous white-shoe courses from other departments use the auditorium. The cellar, which used to be storage space for overflow equipment from the neighboring physics labs, has been made over into piano practice rooms and cubicles with individual phonographs. Music seems to be a stimulus to other modes of expression: the walls of the listening rooms have all developed severe cases of pornographic murals. One need only hear the cellar in full session,--the notes from five different phonographs and as many pianos, all loud...
...bleed the rich like an impecunious vampire ("Artists," he says, "owe a debt to millionaires that can never be repaid, except in cash"). His only lucky break comes when he invades the swank apartment of a holidaying rich man and, after jimmying the food closets and the wine cellar and pawning the silver service, dreamily proceeds to daub The Raising of Lazarus on the wall over the antique sideboard. But in two ticks Gulley himself is invaded by another, equally ruthless genius-a ferocious sculptor who cheerfully hoists a vast block of rock through the studio window and sets...
...their stories. "I was arrested with my husband when we were trying to escape to Western Germany," said one woman. "We were accused of espionage for the Americans. My husband was sentenced to ten years and sent to Russia. The most terrible time I had was in the NKVD cellar at Hohen-schönhausen. One woman slashed her wrists and a man hanged himself...
...Land Army. Later she struggled as a matron in a camp for conscripted girl munitions workers, then as an army canteen hostess. But her job as hostess seemed to consist chiefly of peeling potatoes and being attacked by hordes of fleas. Once she found herself in a cellar with a self-styled photographer who offered her a job developing dirty pictures. Finally she tried herself out as an assistant librarian and then as a War Office employee...
Study Nature. The best pictures in the show were by those who had escaped to nature. Maurice H. Bisharat, a Connecticut doctor, had descended into his cellar to paint dead leaves in a vase, and won a gold medal for capturing the musty golden light in his hideout. A New Hampshire housewife named Eugénie C. Cooney had won another medal with her painstaking portrait of a lonely pine overlooking the sea. Dr. Harry Smallen had studied the surf at Martha's Vineyard, Mass, and successfully avoided the soapy-water look that makes most amateur seascapes dreary...