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...exhibition was among the most comprehensive ever displayed. It was a delight of the sort that may result in later nightmares, however. Africa's master carvers were "masters" not in the Western but in a witch-doctor sense. Their purpose, mainly, was to carve objects for spirits to inhabit. Such artists never described, never analyzed, but only evoked. The spirits which African superstition demanded and African art evoked may be lonely as well as incomprehensible in Brooklyn, but they still weave powerful spells. It takes a dedicated collector to murmur, as one of the Brooklyn show's donors...
...fills other needs, than in Europe. It is a place set apart, a magical place, the only one where the past is encountered. When I returned to Paris, I ... was appalled by the dirt of ages that overlaid everything . . . We cannot escape the dead hand of the past. We inhabit a collection of open-air museums which are the antechambers to the museums themselves, and we enter without changing our climate...
...from their solid jobs to their solid neighborhoods, Mexico proliferates with the new rich, those who make money fast and like to spend it freely. In Mexico City's luxurious Pedregal and Lomas, in Guadalajara's fashionable lakeside Chapalita, on the suave green slopes of Cuernavaca, they inhabit glittering glass villas that are the last word in international-style architecture. They drive bright-colored Cadillacs and set a fast pace at the country clubs. Bedecked with diamonds and keen to be seen, they jam the opera for performances at which tickets cost more than at New York...
...said: "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration"? Who said: "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it"? A centenarian was asked how many grandchildren he had. He replied that if he divided them into groups of two, three, four, five or six, he always had one left over, but that when he divided them into groups of seven there was no remainder...
There are White Thais (whose women wear mostly white), Black Thais (who wear black), and, more recently, Red Thais (from the political colors they wear), who have their own autonomous administration in southern Yunnan (Red China). But Thais, of one color or another, inhabit Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Siam and northern Burma. In Laos the Communists have already set up their own puppet government (see above), but Communist propaganda speaks of "liberating" the Thai people as a whole and establishing among them a "Free Asian Republic...