Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gris' appeal is more obvious when he uses brilliant colors, as in the vibrant "Violin et Guitare," or more imaginative, as in the melancholy "L'Arlequin," while his mastery of line work is demonstrated by a pair of fine lithographs, "Marcelle la Brune" and "Marcelle la Blonde...
...movement has its bible, the abstruse 700-page L'Etre et le Néant (Being and Nothingness), which Philosopher Sartre published in 1943. Its literature includes Sartre's Huis Clos (ClosedDoors), a drama laid in Hell with an infanticide, Lesbian and a military deserter as its chief protagonists. The cult's foremost disciple is Authoress Simone de Beauvoir, who lives in the same hotel on the same floor as the master...
Portrait of Maria (MGM International) is a Mexican-made film with an English sound track dubbed in. It thus reverses the traditional practice of dubbing Spanish into Hollywood films so that Spanish-speaking movie audiences will get the impression that Gary Cooper, Shirley Temple, et al. are speaking idiomatic Spanish. U.S. cinemaddicts will not be surprised to hear Maria's heroine (Delores Del Rio) speaking English, but they will note that the sound track doesn't quite match the Del Rio lips-or even the Del Rio voice...
About some news there can be little argument. The work of the U.S. Congress, the doings of the President, the pulling and hauling of UNO, the trial of war criminals in Japan and Germany, et al., obviously have high significance. So have the week's new discoveries and revelations in science, medicine...
Critic Winspear, who is director of Chicago's leftish Abraham Lincoln School, got maddest at one of Harvard's suggested reading lists which he said "apparently stopped with the great classics of laissez-faire. From such a list [Adam Smith, Rousseau, Mill et al.] ... no student would ever glean 'dangerous thoughts...