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Forged Card. The pictures recall Anne Frank's diary-but they are dimmer; there is no precocity in them. Charlotte Salomon had studied art, and clearly had been impressed by the paintings of Edvard Munch-works with all the intellectual content of a scream. She painted in pursuit of self-abandonment-only to find that she had created a new world for herself in which she remained the grey onlooker, helpless to change the course of things but committed, all the same, to watch. From this she adopted her only moral: "I wish everyone I know the experience...
...them without letting his hosts or fellow guests suspect his feeling. The "throngs" that saw him off on his temporary emigration were as corrupt a crew of notable names as ever were dropped. His acquaintance included Bennett Surface, a characteristic Algren joke-name notable for being an even dimmer joke than any pulled by the original. And the pansy routine Algren sets going between a literary character named Norman Manlifellow and a "deeply tanned" writer named Giovanni is good for a yak, even though the material might be thought a bit crude by a Catskill M.C. for an Elks Club...
Kerr said that the university will continue to become more involved in the life of society in other ways, as Newman's vision of the university as an "Ivory tower" grows dimmer. "Extension work is really becoming 'life-long learning,'" he noted, and added that television now means "the boundaries of the university are stretched to embrace all of society." In addition, university facilities, such as libraries, and centers for the performing and visual arts, will become more important in the nation's cultural life, Kerr predicted...
Unimpressed, the green and gold skaters from Potsdam, New York responded with two quick goals to take a commanding 4-2 lead. The Crimson's E.C.A.C. hopes never seemed dimmer...
...brightness of the new comet is 250 times dimmer than the dimmest object visible to the naked human eye. It has no tail, no central nucleus, and it is probably receding from the earth. But in the history of astronomy, it has a singular distinction: it was found by a 19-year-old lathe operator, chief support of a fatherless family, who made his own telescope...