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...Still sticking to their beloved Paris, Hitler or no, were six of the most famed figures in contemporary art: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, André Derain, Georges Rouault, Maurice de Vlaminck, Marcel Duchamp. To them the German army of occupation had extended special privileges, including an extra ration of coal...
These Spaniards know they may be killed. Jordan senses it when he hears the orders. The general senses it when he gives them. So does Pablo, the pig-eyed, cunning guerrilla leader, when Jordan asks his help. So does Pilar, his big, ugly, wise, foul-mouthed wife. Pilar is a gypsy: she reads doom in Jordan's palm. She smelt death-to-come on the last dynamiter who went through, and he was killed. In one of the book's terrible, eloquent passages ("All right, Ingles. Learn. . . .") the woman with her ancient wisdom actually conveys in words what...
...people's triumph over their foreknowledge of death-to-come if they blow up the bridge. Jordan goes through with it because he is intellectually convinced that he is helping to defeat fascism. Pilar goes through with it because she is part of the revolution and cannot stop. Pablo's strong instinct to live makes him desert at the last moment and destroy the detonator. Then he, too, realizes in his own way that "no man is an iland." He cannot stand the loneliness of desertion, returns to help dynamite the bridge...
...1890s, when Pablo Picasso was a pup, a Schleswig-German artist named Emil Nolde began experimenting. He distorted forms, rearranged figures, changed colors-innovations with which Picasso was later credited by the uninformed. Artist Nolde, father of German "Expressionism," lived through World War I, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich. When in 1937 the Nazis held a finger-pointing exhibit of "Degenerate Art" in Munich, Nolde was naturally included...
...They count and classify words to determine what books children should read, what children's classics should be rewritten, how intelligent grown-up readers are. Last week a Chicago psychologist came up with a word-counting formula for measuring not readers but writers. Goateed, Russian-born Dr. David Pablo Boder, head of the psychology department at Lewis Institute (a technical school) and director of its Psychological Museum, called his formula the Adjective-Verb Quotient...