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...loaded the taxpayers with an 11% increase in state income taxes to cover a budget based on his error. But there was remarkably little public reaction. One reason: a point about a state budget often gets lost in a maze of statistics, analyses and charts. Last week, however, Oswald D. (for David) Heck, speaker of the New York state assembly, found a way to make the case in a word...
...Oswald Spengler. that grand and gloomy chronicler of The Decline of the West, once remarked that Edouard Manet (1832-83) was the last gasp of great Western painting. What Spengler failed to see was that Manet was not an end but a beginning. With a single picture, displayed at the Paris Salon of 1865, Manet fueled an artistic revolution that has shaped the course of modern art, for better or for worse, for nearly a century. At the core of the whole hurly-burly that rages through the art world today is the artistic proposition raised by Manet...
...Indian Fighter (Bryna; United Artists). "Decline in creative power," said Historian Oswald (The Decline of the West) Spengler, is "most obvious [in] the taste for the gigantic." If this dictum is true, the moviegoer of recent years has been seeing the sharp decline of the western. Gone is love's old sweet story of strong, silent him and dimity her. In its place the studios are offering enormous spectacles on the wide screen-galumphing travesties of the traditional horse opera-in which the lusty heroes now wrestle biddies as well as baddies, and the heroines are as likely...
...acting is probably not the main reason why Dreyfus is not quite satisfactory today, though it was once bailed as a classic. The picture is, after all, a quarter of a century old. By modern standards, the technical facilities available to Richard Oswald, the producer and director, were extremely crude, and he did the best he could with them. Futhermore, Oswald's decision to make a picture about anti-Semitism was an act of considerable moral courage in the Germany of 1930. When Hitler came to power three years later, the film was banned. Therefore, despite its shortcomings as drama...
...addition to the fictional treatment of the game, help is offered to the guileless by Oswald Jacoby and Russel Crouse as they wrestle with the problem of how to play and how not to play poker. Unfortunately, their efforts may force some readers to the conclusion that, in order to operate profitably, larceny up to and including purse-snatching is not to be despised...