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...paintings at Knoedler's trace Van Velde's grim road. Gaunt figures loom in his early paintings, but in his later work they begin to decompose, and finally the portraits are hidden behind impenetrable strokescreens in which forms flow free of nature and colors are free of form. The colors slosh about in swoops and swirls; the paintings seem as gay as bunting...
...Never Be Friends." Dachau and Buchenwald loom large in Jewish memories: one householder suspected that his surly postman was an unreconstructed Nazi, only to discover that the man was a lifelong socialist who had spent years interned in a concentration camp. Most of the German-born Jews who fled abroad have refused to return home, and the few who have come back are cautious still. "We work together with the Germans," says the production manager of a clothing firm in West Berlin, "but we can never be friends. They either feel guilty about what they did to us, or they...
...Actor Lukas, who gives a remarkably evocative imitation of the Wise Old Man of Zu rich, the late Carl Jung; thanks principally to Actor Robards. Robards has all the quick intelligence and liquid charm the author wrote into his hero, but he has something more. He has eyes that loom behind the easy smile and graceful chatter with a strangely disturbing expression, the expression of a dying man who sees quite clearly, as his whole life flashes before his eyes, that it was actually nothing, nothing...
...long sweep of history, however, none of 1961's most clamorous developments were likely to loom as large as another, less-publicized phenomenon: the coming of age of automation. Half reluctantly, the U.S public in 1961 began to sense that it was in the midst of a techno logical revolution, and to consider the consequences...
...edge to the elder Waugh's comedy. Auberon says he has no interest in being a professional novelist. He wrote The Foxglove Saga because it was what was expected of him in a literary family (his father wrote Decline and Fall at 25, and his Uncle Alec wrote Loom of Youth at 19). So "when Father told me, 'My boy, it is time you wrote your first book,' I took it in my stride...