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Presumably the shouting was about a world threatened by the atom bomb. Lorjou meant his painting to convey a hopeful message. If there is an atomic war, he says, "afterwards there will still be men. It will be necessary to nourish them...
Georges Rouault feels "very tired" at 79. He lives in seclusion outside of Paris, painting his molten, haunting illustrations of the New Testament. Dark though they generally are, Rouault's religious works depend on color to convey his intense emotion. Far more self-critical than most moderns, Rouault two years ago burned 315 old, unfinished works he had come to dislike...
...news to come. One such was the cover story on Eugene Holman, president of Standard Oil Co. of N.J. (March 24, 1947), which explained the corporation's $300 million expansion into Middle Eastern oil as an attempt not only to make money but at the same time to convey the "tangible benefits of free enter prise" to a backward land. Almost two years later the U.S.'s Point Four plan for world recovery was launched to encourage just such tangible benefits as this...
...when verse in this issue departs into the realms of the more ephemeral than the starving Sioux that it sometimes fails in communication while attaining technical perfection. For instance, "The Hunter" by Charles Neuhauser fails to convey even a clear image though it seems to be struggling after some psychological mood. Similarly Donald Hall's "Old Home Day" goes to unnecessary, and near baffling lengths of symbolism in creating a brief impression of what seems to be the dying granduer of Wilmot, New Hampshire. His other Garrison Honorable Mention is more successful in expressing the feelings, arising from memory mixed...
More often the Voice really manages to convey the breadth and the vigor of the American land. A recent instance was the dramatized history of the Missouri Valley, including the Astor Fur Co. and Custer's Last Stand. The piece ended in this trite but nevertheless moving passage: "The great buffalo herds of yesterday live only in the songs of the West now, and where not long ago there were log cabins and small settlements, modern cities bloom-Kansas City, Omaha, Bismarck and all the others. Bridges cross the winding river, carry trains and automobiles from one bank...