Word: orientale
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Shades of Ben. The three professors plenipotentiary have written 25 books among them, are unabashed intellectuals in countries that respect scholars or ideologists. Outwardly, they are as dissimilar as their specialties. Trim (5 ft. 11¼ in., 155 Ibs.), athletic George Kennan is blunt, analytical, professional, and a deeply moral...
There are times in Archipenko's more recent work when experiment drowns out art, when the struggle is too obvious, the effect too contrived. But in 1961 he could still turn out work of extraordinary range. His Kimono at the Perls Galleries has the simple and timeless authority of...
No Bikini. At 39, Curtin has the rare good fortune to be as talented an actress as she is a singer. Her Violetta in Traviata is rendingly pathetic, her Cathy in Carlisle Floyd's Wuthering Heights surgingly passionate, her Mistress Ford in Otto Nicolai's Merry Wives of...
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and Other Tales (Boris Karloff; Caedmon). Actor Karloff, in a voice as rich as a ripe persimmon, unwinds with "infinite resource and sagacity" the mad Kiplingesque logic featuring the rhinoceros with a three-button skin and the Parsee from whose hat the rays...
Masterpieces of Impassiveness. The artist ranked high in the kingdom, was sometimes even a member of the ruling class. One minister was called "the first of living artists," and there were princes only too happy to bear the title of mason (architect). In subject, the artists favored the deities of...