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Shostakovich meekly labeled his next symphony "A Soviet Artist's Reply to Just Criticism." Now, in its first American recording, the Fourth is worth hearing mainly to find out what all the fuss was about. Whatever its polemic content may be, it sounds clumsily Mahlerian and full of papier-maché grandeur...
...sympathies of Japan's emotional voters behind the opposition Socialists, a right-wing fanatic assassinated Socialist Party Boss Inejiro Asanuma. But last week, when election workers finished counting up nearly 40 million ballots, elated Liberal-Democratic Premier Hayato Ikeda carefully began to ink in the eyes of a papier-maché daruma doll-a duty prescribed by Japanese custom for a man who has attained a cherished goal...
They did just fine. A staff of six devoted a full two months to the project, consulted occasionally with Artist Artzybasheff, and produced seven lively models-made of Styrofoam with a papier-maché; and plastic covering. The wide-eyed, camera-wielding Tiros caricature became a wonderfully evocative, 8-ft.-wide monster; and the nose on the 8-ft.-long Vanguard III would arouse the envy of even Los Angeles Neighbor Jimmy Durante...
Family Façades. Predictably, most of the girls had miserable childhoods; three-fourths came from homes broken by separation or divorce. The rest had viewed their homes as façades, papier-maché creations erected to cover a desiccated relationship, devoid of love between father and mother. Since most had seen their fathers leave home, their mothers had never made them feel welcome but had always emphasized the burden of parenthood. In rage and desperation, some girls turned hopefully to their fathers-not in an Oedipal attachment, but in hopes of nurture which, again, was denied them...
Compared to the papier-maché heroes of most Hollywood westerns, Davy Crockett is filled with engaging human imperfections : he loses his first hand-to-hand battle with the Indian chief, Red Stick, and only succeeds in overcoming villainous Mike Mazurki by biting his opponent's thumb. There are some stereotypes-Buddy Ebsen has the familiar role of the trusty pal, and Hans Conreid plays a cowardly gambler with synthetic W. C. Fields flourishes. But, all in all, Davy makes his giant-sized legend come as truly alive as that of Mike Fink, the river boatman, or Paul Bunyan...