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...differences. The most different man in town was his own father. "A supreme individual," recalls Talese, "a man with a mustache in a town where there were no mustaches, dressed in flamboyant tweed suits that he designed himself." Talese is also an elegant dresser and a hard-working individualist...
Renoir is fully aware of all the theatrical conventions he employs-in this case, the individualist basis of melodrama. Rather than attack them, he uses them to his purposes, often subverting them comically as in Bondu, in Elena sustaining them tragically because they express the class limitations of his protagonists' behavior. The aristocrats are doomed to act in an aristocratic mode; in La Marseillaise they dance minuets while the rebels consolidate their partial victory; the characters of Regle circle as politely as the figures on the Marquis's music boxes. The masses, for their part, behave en masse...
WILLIAM BROCK III, 40, Republican, Tenn., is handsome and earnest, a wealthy candy manufacturer who describes himself as a "staunch individualist." He attacks the status quo, marking himself as a new kind of moderate Southern conservative. Three House terms on the Banking and Currency Committee have made economic policy his primary concern, and he will generally back Nixon in this area...
This week the Whitney Museum opens a major retrospective of O'Keeffe's paintings. It should scotch the myth of her provinciality forever. O'Keeffe emerges from it as an archetypal individualist who knew about styles other than her own, who delved back to the roots of modernism (such as Oriental art) to discover her own direction, found it, and moved on. If she is a loner at 82, it is because of her special vision. To call her "provincial" because her images are mainly drawn from New Mexico is like calling Gauguin provincial because he worked...
...Godard would point his finger at the "Academy Awards" and re-em-phasize Vertov's disgust. A former French individualist, Godard is now a member of a film collective "where we are all directors, actors, actresses, cameraman or camera-women." The collective is named for Vertov. It decides spontaneously what to shoot and devotes itself to experimentation and self-criticism. It acts on Godard's off quoted assumption that "In order to become an intellectual revolutionary, it is necessary to give up being an intellectual." The collective members have not become scholars of ancient revolutions but rather what Stokeley Carmichael...