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Tragedy in Barcelona. The excitement in Mexico City and Paris was mild compared to the roaring ole that has greeted the latest shows of 20-year-old, Manhattan-born Joan Markson, who signs herself with an Italianate flourish as "Giovannella." At her first show four months ago in Madrid, one critic wrote, "She approaches Goya . . . approximates Rembrandt . . . will have an outstanding name in the painting of our time...
...twelve stories. The Cardinal's Third Tale makes its Gothic point with perhaps the neatest and most ironic flourish. Lady Flora Gordon, a handsome Scotswoman of giant size, impressive intellect and unassailable chastity, meets in Rome a gentle, saintly priest who tries desperately to root out "her utter disbelief and her utter contempt of Heaven and Earth.'' When arguments fail, he finally confronts her with the brooding, majestic statue of St. Peter in the Vatican, a figure so noble in size and concept that it dwarfs even Lady Flora's proud body and arrogant mind...
...jobs, boosted per capita income from $264 to $369. Puerto Rico's Economic Development Administrator Teodoro Moscoso emphasized that the "key" to his country's swift rise was the original decision to use government funds only to create an environment in which private industry could flourish. Said he: "What is transforming Puerto Rico is not the money but the dynamic productive forces of the U.S. industrial concerns which made the investment decisions and are operating the new factories. Comparable amounts made as loans or grants would have had nowhere near so great an impact...
...which is not really surprising, although playing an exaggeratedly gay, moderately mad French aristocrat might have seemed a bit beyond her great scope and skill. She triumphs, as usual. Her gestures are a catalogue of how to act; her bright eyes and posed postures handle comedy with a great flourish...
...country that managed to survive Nazi savagery and Allied destruction, being reborn not in hope but in selfish mediocrity; a society where guilty memories are screened behind lifeless living and where the intellectual tone is set by chattering pedants of the adaptable sort who are able to flourish equally under Naziism or democracy. The fact that today Germany in many ways presents a far more hopeful face to the world does not change the poignancy of Novelist Boll's haunting recollections...