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Kafka has also been called a theological writer, a philosophical writer, a Zionist, a Freudian, a bitter social critic, a Kafkaist. Plain readers may brush aside the tags. For them two facts are important: 1) to express the manifold, intangible anguish of life, Kafka told his greatest stories in the condition of dreams (he understood that dreams, despite their infinite fluidity of merging forms, have great narrative economy); 2) as a symbolist (Kafka's long books are called novels chiefly by reason of their length), he found for his two greatest stories, The Trial and The Castle...
What democracy is not was expressed by Secretary of State Marshall in Moscow [TIME, March 24] when he said: "To us a society is not democratic if men . . . are not free to express their beliefs and convictions without fear that they may be snatched away from their home and family," and without fear "of being deprived of the right to work or deprived of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
...first thing you notice in Hollywood," reported British Cinemactress Ann Todd, now back home, ". . . is that you're tremendously important." She had been treated like a queen, she told the London Daily Express, but "never think they love you, because they don't." Cooperation? "If you don't surrender your whole life, including your husband, children, home and private thoughts," recalled Miss Todd, "they will say: 'Miss Todd, you're not being cooperative...
...human toes, was included in last week's show) but nowadays, when Magritte closes his eyes in search of "what has never been seen," he hopes to come upon something pleasant. "The German Occupation," Magritte explains, "marked a turning point in my art. Before the war, my paintings expressed anxiety, but the experiences of war have taught me that what matters in art is to express charm. It I is much easier to terrorize than to charm. ... I live in a very disagreeable world, and my work is meant as a counter-offensive...
...organize for political action," the HLU executive committee made it clear that it had different principles from and had no connection with the AYD, but believed that its point of view should be heard. The statement added: "We further believe that if AYD receives a charter, its attempts to express its own viewpoints through other organizations will no longer be justified...