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...mental harmony has clung to his reputation like a sugary burr. Successive generations of collegians, coming upon it in more modern times, have turned away, convinced that Arnold's comments on the world are about as relevant to the tough-minded 20th century as those, say, of Harriet Beecher Stowe...
...first volume, written in 1933 and translated into English in 1946, dealt with the Portuguese colonization and the establishment of Negro slavery on the coffee and sugar plantations. Freyre's second volume, written in 1936, has now been translated by Harriet de Onis, mother of the New York Times's Brazil cor respondent. Titled The Mansions and the Shanties (Knopf; $10), the book traces the growth of the cities in the 19th century and the breakdown of slavery (formally abolished in 1888), and cheerfully argues that a major reason for Brazil's immense vitality is miscegenation. "Perhaps...
...April 20. "I don't think 22 is too young to get married, if you have found the right girl," said Rick, and Kristin, daughter of former football great Tommy Harmon, looked right as rain. Whether she will join Rick in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet remained to be seen, but with those clannish Nelsons gaining such a pretty new face, it seemed a safe...
...escaped the tirade was Odilon Redon: his work cast the same spell it does today. On the other hand, the critics could not find words strong enough for Henri Matisse. Even the sensitive Harriet Monroe, editor of the avant-garde Poetry, called his pictures "the most hideous monstrosities ever perpetrated in the name of long-suffering art." As for Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, everyone had a field day. Julian Street's description of it as an "explosion in a shingle factory" became almost a household phrase. Teddy Roosevelt compared it unfavorably to a Navajo...
...hate. Then his problem was solved. "I wanted to bring a little offering to human liberty to the world." he recalls, "and I wanted to bring the problem of enslavement to the public eye. As soon as I read Uncle Tom's Cabin, the Christian thought of Harriet Beecher Stowe seduced my mind...