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...modern as his methods, and like most modern art, it draws heavily and unashamedly on arts of the distant past. Smith's sculptures can look like junk-shop equivalents of savage fetishes, bird cages twisted out of shape, elaborate cookie-cutters, armatures for conventional statues, and illegible cut-metal messages. His 24 Greek Ys look somewhat like stick-figures. They are reminiscent of the ages when letters were pictorial symbols and not just parts of words. Smith's 24 Ys perform a sprightly dance on the arms of a steel-candelabrum, spell out Smith's conviction that...
...this period of Great Crisis just about every one of us figures to be serving in the armed services before too long. One of the first precautions every Thinking Undergraduate should take now is to start clearing extraneous junk out of his closet...
Miss Holliday is most of "Born Yesterday," but there are other important parts. Harry Brock, the junk tycoon, is played by Broderick Crawford; William Holden plays Paul Verrall, a crusading reporter. Both give good, straightforward performances, and get author Kanin's ideas across well. Crawford's Harry Brock is not quite up to what Paul Douglas achieved on the stage, however. Crawford plays the junkman as a surly oaf and a menace--both of which he is, of course. But the part is a comic one as well, and Mr. Crawford hasn't done much to earn laughs. After...
There is nothing "modern" about his house, at least in the stiff, sterile, museum sense. It look's like the home of a traveling tinker, cluttered with gadgets, junk and such craft objects as an old cradle scythe, an Algerian blanket, a tom-tom, a coffee table made from a square sheet of aluminum, calabash rattles and rattles made of beer cans filled with pebbles. Somehow, Calder's wife Louisa keeps the place livable, and their two children play happily among the mobiles...
...September 16. Strafed & killed many troops on road from Taejon to Seoul, strafed & sank junk full of troops on Han River northeast of Inchon. Caught troops coming out cave in hill to board junk. Many casualties...