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Governed under "state-of-siege" orders by Acting President Ramon S. Castillo, on lines of thinking geared to those of Senator Burton Wheeler before Pearl Harbor, Argentina acted with Delphic ambiguity last week, secretly instructed its delegates to act "in accordance with the principles which Argentina has always upheld in its international policies." But Argentina moved closer toward collaboration by "recalling" her Ambassador from Berlin, and announced that Germany had recalled Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann,* whose persona has long been non grata with Argentina's pro-Ally Chamber of Deputies...
...peace. . . ." The rallies had ended. But talk still filled the air; radios still blasted on; newspapers loosed their final barrage. Democrats blossomed out in Philadelphia wearing buttons inscribed: "Another Pauper for Roosevelt." Diviners peered into the entrails of fishes, gazed at the geese in the sky, studied statistics, made Delphic guesses: Roosevelt (or Willkie...
Apropos of the review last week of Toscanini's recording of the Beethoven Fifth, lest you think us presumptuous, here is a review from the Gramophone Record Shop in New York City, Mecca and Delphic Oracle for classical record buyers...
...Delphic Studios a 29-year-old Bolivian artist, Roberto Berdecio, friend and disciple of Artist Siqueiros, displayed a number of experimental paintings and two large murals which proved beyond any doubt that "the mechanical brush" is capable of a wide range of artistic effects. Artist Berdecio works with an air-compressing machine and a spray gun of the common industrial type (same principle as an atomizer), using not ordinary Duco enamel but a similar nitrocellulose paint. It has taken him six years, since he first started work with Siqueiros in Mexico City, to train his trigger finger to its present...
...into which Indian art is mainly divided: Oriental tradition and imitative academicism. His greatest admiration is for van Gogh. His idea is to combine the flowing designs and symbolism of Indian art with a strong Western technique. Into many of the paintings shown last week at Manhattan's Delphic Studios he had mixed so much diluted Western impressionism that nothing Indian was left but subject matter. Others seemed purely Oriental. But occasionally it seemed as if Artist Yawalkar might yet use Western art as well as Gauguin and Matisse used the art of the East...