Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conjurer's Secret. By never denying childhood's all-questioning view, Klee kept his magician's power to conjure up the fears and delights underlying the prickly defense of man's intellect. He viewed a line as a dot wandering through space, allowed his hand to follow his own inner promptings. But because what the unconscious tossed up was rigorously controlled by one of the keenest sensibilities in modern art, the result was a lifetime's staggering production of nearly 9,000 works which have an uncanny ability to communicate indirectly to man; their meanings...
...flames in against the background darkness. She Howls, We Play uses lines that are a cross between wire sculpture and children's sidewalk scrawls; the figures might as well be cow with heifers as dog with pups. The message is the same: adult overconcern v. childhood unconcern. But the enveloping red which has already colored the bellowing female suggests the alarming possibility that this time the danger may be real...
Yearn From Childhood. Since childhood Bob Wagner, now 46, has yearned for the Senate seat that was held 22 years by his famed father, the New Deal stalwart for whom the Wagner Labor Relations Act was named. But Young Bob was plainly reluctant to run this year. The obvious time would have been against Republican Irving Ives in 1958-when he would not be bucking a ticket headed by Dwight Eisenhower. Moreover, for a family man there was the matter of personal sacrifice. As mayor, Wagner gets $40,000 a year in salary, $25,000 a year tax-free...
...beside the point, Toynbee gave history not only a pattern but a spiritual end. He reached the conclusion that man's real history is religieus history and that civilizations are really nothing but steppingstones in man's progress to deeper spiritual insight. Yet Toynbee, an Anglican in childhood, always showed himself so ready to range various prophets, gods and philosophers alongside Christ that the question inevitably arose just what kind of Christian he was. That question is more fully answered in his new book, An Historian's Approach to Religion (Oxford; $5), in which he writes about...
...subject is a fascinating fellow. David Garnett, Britain's eminent, aging (64) novelist and critic, has accomplished the next best thing by having a lot of fascinating pals. In The Golden Echo, the first volume of his autobiography (TIME, May 24, 1954), Garnett told of his childhood among such literary greats as Joseph Conrad, who taught him how to sail (on the lawn), Henry James, who had him to tea, and "Jack" Galsworthy. Now Garnett has moved into another part of his private forest of first names. There are among others, Aldous (Huxley), Maynard (Lord Keynes), Virginia (Woolf), Morgan...