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Last week incorrigibly paint-minded Oldster Souchon finished his 500th canvas. "I must hurry up," said he, "because I'm living now on the velvet of my life." Like many another Souchon, No. 500 depicted a tropically lush imaginary scene, in which flat, doll-like figures galloped and swayed through a high-pitched bedlam of clangorous color. When the last brush strokes had dried, he carefully stored it away in his files of similarly exuberant Souchons: Van Gogh-like pictures of hot, shadowless Louisiana cornfields, quaint, warm-colored, old-worldly interiors, and fanciful, childlike coloristic riots like The Farm...
Other sharpshooters invited to the Garden this year: wild & woolly West Texas State, tallest team in the U.S., which won 29 out of its 35 scheduled games last year; Southern California, favorite to win this year's Pacific Coast Conference championship; Colorado University, featuring Bob Doll, a 6 ft. 5 in. center; Wyoming, Big Seven champions; Creighton, Missouri Valley champions; Notre Dame; Washington; Rice; Oregon State (whose basketball teams are nearly as good as their football teams...
Moody, restless and erratic, Painter Kokoschka continually complains that he can't find attractive women models who have souls. Once in the early '20s, Painter Kokcschka was so discouraged trying to find a woman he liked that he commissioned a manufacturer to make him a life-size doll, giving exact specifications as to form, color of hair, eyes, etc. When the doll arrived, Expressionist Kokoschka was so disappointed he took it out into the back yard and burned it, meanwhile fending off a squad of policemen who were convinced he was removing traces of a murder...
...where he said he had walked in his sleep, wakened in a tangle of fishing tackle in a parked car. In Memphis an eleven-year-old runaway from St. Louis, 300 miles away, appeared at his girl friend's home for a date. He brought her a doll. In Camden, N.J., police obeyed the instructions of a twelve-year-old Kansas City runaway's parents who refused to send him the fare home: they released him, told him to hike the 1,100 miles back...
...them, to give an intelligible and tolerable picture of a world in which such things could occur." Wilson demonstrates that the novels are powerful and bitter social criticism; that the Dickens character gallery contains ever more pitiless portraits of Victorian archetypes: the mealymouthed, blood-squeezing merchant, the vapid doll, the turncoat self-made man, and the soul-destroying shrew; that Dickens progressed from social to psychological, almost metaphysical analysis, and at his death was writing into the schizoid murderer Mr. Jasper (in Edwin Drood} not only the last and most symbolically charged of his Victorian hypocrites, but a sinister...