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...Inland Steel Co. vice president and director, Leigh Block. Undaunted by such Albright canvases as Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, the study of a time-battered prostitute, That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do, the portrait of a moldy door, and the flotsam-and-jetsam-cluttered watercolor, Ah God-Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering Sea, Mary Block put her best face forward and hoped. Albright put aside (temporarily) his work in progress of the past twelve years (TIME, Aug. 9, 1954), the still-unfinished, cosmically titled Poor Room-There Is No Time...
...this flotsam, however, the editors do reveal a general attitude in their preference for the humorous. Guy Davenport's cover reflects the nature of their rebellion against the dust-dry Quarterlies, his artsy Greeks standing about whimsically in one-eyed observation. If Audience champions anything, it is laughter as a respectable occupation of the literati...
Shinbone Alley makes a brave try, and at intermission still has something of a chance. After that, things go rather un-brokenly downhill; and only a few times all evening-as in a charming duet, Flotsam and Jetsam, or some Eartha Kitt touches as mehitabel-is the Don Marquis strain triumphant. A few other times-as in a revue-sketch scene where mehitabel, as a dramatic-school tyro, suddenly gives the hot-jazz treatment to Shakespeare-Shinbone Alley is attractive show business. And Eartha Kitt. with her feline grace and mannered charm, is frequently mehitabelish, and at the worst gives...
...result is a cross-rip of conflicting trends, awash with the froth and flotsam of derivative mannerisms and borrowed techniques, with only here and there a standout figure combining endurance, freshness and individual talent. Among those whose work indicates that they bear watching...
...whittling caribou horn, decided to cash in his G.I. Bill on an art education. He studied with Hans Hofmann in Manhattan, polished off in Paris with Painter Fernand Lèger and Sculptor Ossip Zadkine. Back in Manhattan he set out to shape his future by reclaiming the flotsam and jetsam of "the sea of junk around...