Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made of protean Pablo Picasso before he is safely dead. Until then he will spend his life as he has spent it to date: in sporadically escaping from himself by declaring war on his latest period and once more attempting to foretell the shape of things to come. Like the Proteus of classic fable, he has the further gift of eluding those who clutch at him, changing his shape and slipping out of their grasp. At 58, he is still the revolutionary...
...that Very Warm for May lacks "ideas." Rather, it is swamped by them. Providing an elaborate burlesque of summer barn theatres, with their mauve-tinted playwrights, dimwit patronesses and clod-like performers, it lunges wildly in every direction. It jazzes up Freud, mimics Dali, writhes and wriggles, gambols and glides, rains schottisches, streams gavottes, blows ballets. The atmosphere, at its thickest, is very warm for mayhem. The whole thing suggests perfectly the hysterical side of summer theatres, but doesn't turn the funny side into laughs...
...Duke-North Carolina game, last week's clash between the Blue Devils of Durham and the Tar Heels of Chapel Hill divided 3,000,000 North Carolinians into two camps. Sober businessmen, tobacco farmers and textile hands, many of whom never saw a college campus, bet like drunken sailors on either Carolina (undefeated but tied) or Duke (defeated only by Pitt...
...Snavely's boys showed that their early-season victory over Ohio State, mightiest of the mighty Big Ten, was no flash in the pan. Playing as no Cornell team has played since the famed Gil Dobie machines of 1921-22-23, they made a good Dartmouth team look like wooden Indians, scalped them 35-to-6, chalked up their seventh successive victory this season...
Iowa's football hysteria last week made all other sections of the country look like Quaker meetings. At Iowa City, auto horns tooted all night. Citizens toted players around on their backs, danced in the streets, shouted "Anderson for Governor." Reason: the University of Iowa, in its first year under Coach Eddie Anderson (onetime Notre Damer) and with practically the same team that won only one game last year, had just won its sixth game in seven starts this season...