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An intimate painter who put mysterious delights in his pictures of commonplace people and things, Vuillard adapted to painting the poetic creed of his friend Stephane Mallarme:"To name an object is to do away with the three quarters of the enjoyment . . . which is derived from the satisfaction of guessing...
Good theatre need not be didactic. Well done cavalry charges are superior even esthetically--to sophomoric preaching; but Mr. Amfitheatrof's work leans too often on loud voices and poised fists for its dramatic effect. With the innate tension of his story a sympathetic Italian police commissioner rescuing a defected...
As he speaks of his recent change in occupation, Bentinck-Smith leans back and surveys his new Massachusetts Hall office. "It's kind of a wrench to change your whole way of life," he says. One of his favorite contrasts is the linoleum floor of the Bulletin's Wadsworth House...
Italy's Reds dislike Mario Scelba with a special fervor. For Premier Scelba is a double threat: he leans to the left with a program that competes for the workman's allegiance, he is also the tough-minded Interior Minister who in 1948 cowed Italy's rioting...
Political Philosophy: A tough lawyer-cop, with what seems a single-minded concern for law and order and a Watch & Ward Society attitude toward scant bathing suits and nude statues, Scelba leans left of center in his party. He favors more social reforms and public works; has attacked speculators for...