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...Bible's most flaming story of transgression ... A tremendous cast of thousands recreate a world of passion and fire!" This kind of overheated advertising blurb (for David and Bathsheba), and the kind of movie it is designed to sell, goaded Britain's leftish-highbrow weekly New Statesman and Nation into inviting its readers to invent puffs for other cinematic possibilities in the Old Testament. Last week Hollywood tittered a little self-consciously at the results...
...guitar. He is also an expert on the novels of Henry James. Having had hardly any for mal education, Groucho, by dint of greedy reading, has made himself a well-read man. His friends are endlessly amazed at his mastery of the contents of magazines which they regard as highbrow (Atlantic, Harper's, Saturday Review of Literature...
...Pablo Picasso has been officially anathema in his native Spain ever since Franco. Last week it fluttered through the conversation of Madrid's arty set as persistently as one of the master's mechanical Communist peace doves. While suspicious plainclothesmen strained to detect something subversive in the highbrow cafe controversies, the government wondered how to suppress Spain's liveliest and most political art wrangle in 15 years...
...Paris, L'Observateur thought it heard war cries from across the Atlantic, and it didn't like them. What alarmed the leftish (but non-Communist), highbrow weekly was Collier's fictional account of World War III (TIME, Oct. 29). L'Observateur diagnosed the Collier's issue as a symptom of a general U.S. psychoneurosis, lampooned the Collier's act, showed Russia winning World War III. L'Ob-servateur's most striking illustration: a drawing of General Eisenhower surrendering to a Russian officer. Said I'Observateur: Collier's "rendered a great...
Henry David Thoreau's Yankee mind ranged from poetry to lead pencils (he invented a better one). The editors of Britain's highbrow Architectural Review have now found a fresh distinction for him: give or take a few details, Thoreau did a startlingly good job of anticipating the modern house. With a layout of some recent U.S. designs, Architectural Review ran a snatch from Walden...