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...plot material. It would take a sadistic pedant to insist that Chevalier's beggar changes character a little as he changes financial position, or to say that Ma Pomme contains several genuinely dull scenes. Such comments would be un-seasonal carpings, however, and their originators would richly deserve to choke on their fruit cake...
...statuary shop. Suspiciously eying some nondescript, nonobjective works, Sir Jacob reissued one of his favorite dicta: "I don't like abstract art of any kind, by any artist. Imaginative realism is what I like, not photographic realism." Then he gazed skeptically at a welded bronze piece, managed to choke out a noncommittal "Novel." But it reminded him of the "stovepipes" turned out by Britain's Reginald Butler, who "has no conception of form." He then invited his entourage of sculptors to debate or just plain chat with him. When all kept respectfully silent, Epstein happily began tossing...
...morning last fortnight, 104 of the unmarried monks and 109 of the nuns shuffled into Seoul's Choke Temple to start a hunger strike. Rubbing their prayer beads, softly chanting their sutras. they waited. As night fell, the celibates retired to sleep-all but Sentry Kim Chi Yo, who took up his post at the temple's weathered wooden gates. There was a delegation of married monks in town to protest the government's decree, and rumor had it that the married monks might be looking for trouble...
...West. Tito assured Nehru that Western aid carried no strings, that the West favored strong, independent countries. Nehru interposed: "Even if they are building Socialism?" Tito answered Nehru: "Provided that they are genuinely independent." The capitalist West simply has to aid underdeveloped countries, said Communist Theoretician Tito, or choke itself with its own productivity. Tito and Nehru subsequently put out a joint communique (written by Nehru) denying that they would form a "third bloc, or third force." In private. Jawaharlal Nehru expressed their reasoning more bluntly: "If we align ourselves with one or the other bloc, we cease to count...
Soundly trounced in the Senate, Italy's Communists and fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists turned to the Chamber of Deputies last week in their effort to choke the anti-Communist government of Mario Scelba with the tangled web of the Montesi case...