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...Parisian critics agreed that Tal-Coat was indeed an artist "away from the current of his epoch." Instead of sophisticated posturings, said one, there was "an indication of meditation, of a naive drunkenness." But his feverish search for ever-increasing simplicity could also lead into a blind alley. Presumably, commented Opera, "Tal-Coat has reached the end of his evolution because unless he is prepared to exhibit blank canvases to his breathless public, what else...
Libel in France. When Victor Kravchenko published the bestselling story of his career as a onetime Soviet bureaucrat, I Chose Freedom, a French Communist weekly called him a "liar" and a U.S. secret agent. Kravchenko sued for libel, and in a Parisian courtroom whose atmosphere often resembled a low-comedy brawl there was, nonetheless, enacted a deadly serious debate between the ideologies of two worlds. Largely because of impressive testimony given by a number of former inmates of Russian slave-labor camps, Kravchenko won his case and token damages of 3 francs. His second book, though ineptly written and frequently...
...messages from London. At one point, the British embassy issued a statement to the press: "It is important at this stage to make the British government's attitude quite clear. The British government yield to none in their approval of the proposal to hold a conference ..." Hardly had Parisian newspaper offices received this statement when the embassy called excitedly to withdraw it. The British government's attitude, it seemed, could not yet be made quite clear...
...Church of St.-Roch. After his first try for the Prix de Rome (he later won it), his father cut off his allowance in an attempt to force him back to medicine. Berlioz continued to compose, living sometimes only on raisins, salt and bread earned by singing in a Parisian theater, scribbling musical criticisms and giving guitar lessons...
...Venice, and sturdy, resigned burros tote it into the dusty Mexican hills. Bright red signs proclaim its worth in the shadow of the Matterhorn and beneath the blank, unastonished eyes of the great Sphinx. The gentle burps which it evokes from the drinker are heard amid the bustle of Parisian sidewalk cafes and amid the tinkling of Siamese temple bells...