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From then on Sculptor Noguchi piled up an ever-increasing amount of critical praise. He returned to New York, made a series of excellent portrait heads. Crop-headed Lincoln Edward Kirstein, esthetic son of the vice president of Filene's Department Store, introduced him to Harvard University where his exhibition was considered important enough for the Crimson, undergraduate daily, to run a front-page headline: NOGUCHI AT HARVARD. The Arts Club of Chicago took him up. In 1930 he started around the world, saw his family in Tokyo for the first time in years. He showed some Japanese portrait heads...
...LINCOLN KIRSTEIN'S first novel, "Flesh is Heir" might be said to show great promise for the future rather than attainment in the present. It deals with the generation that followed the war, only vicariously affected by its disillusion and despair. The method is autobiographical; so much so in fact, that many who know the author or even who know Cambridge can recognize various of the characters. The novel, or "historical romance" as it is called, is composed of a series of episodes, almost short stories, of the youth of one Roger Baum during the last decade. First...
...times the book is a mere exposition of Mr. Kirstein's erudition, but not often; at others it expresses truly deep and intense feeling. There is little description and less comment. The story is told in a straightforward fashion by convincing conversation in short scenes that are admirably contrasted...
...first episode is perhaps the best. Here Mr. Kirstein is really penetrating. The scene is at school where Roger meets a mystical, imaginative boy, Andy, who comes to have a great influence over him. Finally, through a weird kind of fear he makes Roger completely subservient to him. Despite its strangeness, the story is quite real. In a glass works he finds artistic temperament struggling against industrialization. He tries to fight for it in the patronizing manner of a rich man's son and fails miserably. The situation is inevitable...
...Kirstein writes well. He knows how to handle a dramatic situation simply. His prose can b e powerful and direct, and his characters, real. But somehow he seldom realizes his possibilities; they are usually just beyond his grasp. In the future with greater maturity he may perhaps...