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...about the role of the writer in American society were raised. As Granville Hicks has written, the central tension for the American artist has been one of "struggle or flight": whether to stay in this country and make an artistic go of it, or gratefully withdraw to some Parisian garret. Partisan Review editors--and William Phillips was chief among them--chose to stay and struggle during the 1930s. Their magazine represented one attempt by intellectuals to provide a forum in society for the dispossessed artist...
From the beginning, Simon's writing has contained deep autobiographical overtones. For instance, the one-room attic apartment in Barefoot in the Park resembles the garret he and his wife lived in during the first year of their marriage. His characters, like their creator, tend to come from New York Jewish middle-class backgrounds. "Everything I write is about New York," he notes...
...Patterson film and A Woman of Paris is that the two male figures in the latter represent two contradictory sides of Chaplin's nature, which he tried to gloss over. Purviance's first love is an artist, but rather a bourgeois one. His mother shares his garret with him, and his paintings, like his dress and manner, are rather staid. He sentimentalizes virtue, just as Chaplin did in the soppier passages of his own work. As the documentary makes clear, Chaplin himself aspired all his life to the kind of stability this stiff youth aspires...
...rally will call for the revocation of the tuition increase and for the dropping of charges against Garret Virchek, who was arrested for trespassing last Wednesday night when Silber defended the tuition increase to an audience of over 900 students, Phillips said...
Glazunov is no Soviet Velasquez, but he has certainly prospered. He moved from the garret he had long occupied into a lavish downtown Moscow apartment, and was given an immense studio. So why did he cause such a fuss? Many suspect that Glazunov's legendary ego may have been involved. Not so, says Glazunov. The affair was a matter of principle. Says he: "This is my artistic declaration, and I can't open the exhibition without...