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...questions imply the recognition of considerable merits in her story. Certainly, profound dilemmas are not always enacted on a plane of heroic tragedy. To depict sordidness itself as a component of great actions is also a task, and Miss Karmel seems aware of it. Furthermore, her ability to marshall the facts themselves so vividly that her probing of them appears glaringly inadequate, indicates the measure of her technical accomplishment. It is the most basic responsibility to that technique, however, which I find lacking...
...problem which faced the writers of that industrial period was how to depict problems involved in the rapid transition to industry and yet retain literary standards. As might be expected, in doing the former, the latter suffered. Writers were forced to read their stories to assemblies of workers and writers, for "constructive criticism"; they had to sign time pledges for their books, just as a factory worker did. In writing about this period, the authors were almost always forced to use this Socialist Realism. Socialist Realism, in short, must depict conditions in factories, or farms, but in such...
Merely by the arching of her eyebrows or the reshaping of her lips, Miss Magnani can depict moods that quickly change from flamboyancy to sulkiness, or from stubbornness to sweetness. No one will deny that this is an admirable talent for any actress. Unfortunately, however, talent in itself is rarely entertaining, and an hour and a half of Magnani's facial contortions, no matter how gifted, is a tedious display...
When paint failed his purpose, Dove would turn to collage (pasting oddly assorted things together to make a picture). He portrayed his grandmother by superimposing a bit of her needlepoint, a page from her Bible and some pressed flowers, upon old shingles. To depict willow trees in the rain he mounted twigs, flecked with gelatine, on glass. Wild and precise at once, he would try anything, and always with exquisite craftsmanship. Until his death, Dove's painted patterns of blobby color and flickering line gained steadily in emotional refinement, but their refinement resulted in a kind of fragility. Seen...
Eventually Orozco got his paint-holding plaster and by 1934 Dartmouth got its far-famed murals. These freezes, which cover over three thousand square feet of wall space, depict the Aztec legend of Quetsalcoti, the Great White Father both modern counterpart...