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Gorky became rather more a surrealist than anything else. His canvases seethed with strange, diseased, weirdly colored, biomorphic forms that hover in a mindless galaxy halfway between flower and viscera. Agony was completed in 1947 and reflects several personal catastrophes, past, present and to come. The burning down of his Connecticut studio, a cancer operation and a crippling automobile accident ultimately led Gorky to take his own life...
...growing up in the cities, and the Charm is being taken over by the Tourist Board. Bogus castles, renovated pubs and professional colorful characters may be all that survive of it, unless the Irish pass a miracle that has defeated other folk people and keep the flower without also keeping the dunghill it grew...
...tougher the crackdown by authorities became, the greater the sympathy aroused by the protesters. One old man was seen smiling and waving a flower at demonstrators, and many homeowners offered garden hoses to thirsty marchers. Seventy-eight representatives of long-established student organizations called for continuing the unofficial development of the park, a course supported by 12,719 of almost 15,000 students voting in a referendum. Chancellor Roger Heyns refused. A boycott of classes until the Guard was withdrawn was called by 177 of the 1,000-member faculty...
Since then, Renwick has had little time to produce anything but chastity belts. Orders for his belts-decorated with a frilly flower design and diamond-shaped cutouts around the waistband -keep arriving from the U.S., France, the Low Countries and Scandinavia. A Mr. Fung of Hong Kong wanted one with a 32-inch waist. A dealer in Italy asked for 150 of them and in Kuwait, Renwick's agent reports that a few sheiks are interested in his wares. "I'd much rather make a weather vane or a fat cow than reproduce something as inherently horrid...
...WITH THE FLOWER IN HIS MOUTH. An evening of three one-acters by Italian Playwright Luigi Pirandello. The title play deals with death, The License with the evil eye, and The Jar with innate human idiocy. The actor who animates each is Jay Novello, a wily performer with a tasty slice of prosciutto...