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...artful Catalan, Joán MirÓ, who has made a career of painting like a five-year-old, only better. The grand prize for sculpture was awarded to playful and mysterious Alsatian Jean Arp and his crowd of polished bronze and marble lumps, each looking like a kernel of popcorn magnified many thousands of times...
Sister Transistor. General Electric announced a tiny electronic capacitor that is designed to work as a companion to the transistor. About as big as a kernel of corn (and about a quarter the size of the smallest capacitor G.E. has turned out so far). the new capacitor can store energy and release it later when needed. Made mostly of silver and tantalum, it filters electric current, eliminating interference and improving the tone of such devices as miniature radios and hearing aids. Price: about...
...kernel of the group tutorial lies in the group's freedom to work on and develop, at its own speed, any projects that hold its interest. By denying tutorial self-direction the English department has rejected most of the deliberative, personal aspects of the sessions and reduced them to little more than, as one sophomore put it, "glorified section meetings...
...will "realize that it was precisely the Papal power at its fullest development which gathered the world into the dominion of Christ; . . . that without Papal infallibility in matters of faith and morals, the divine revelation would be forever at the mercy of human error and extravagance; that the inner kernel of Papal power . . . is nothing but service of the Church, nothing but a perpetual washing of the feet of the disciples...
Strangers' occasional virtuosity cannot conceal its flaws. As a Cuban Gestapo man, Pedro (The Pearl) Armendariz gives a fine performance. But when he starts making bestial passes at Jennifer Jones while Garfield hides in the cellar, he is only one jump ahead of old-fashioned horse opera. Another kernel of corn: Garfield's big death scene, highlighted by Gilbert Roland's brokenhearted requiem in calypso rhythm and some highfalutin dialogue delivered by Miss Jones. Never for a moment a dull movie, Strangers is often too facile or too far away from strict artistic honesty. Coming from...