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...John Beauvais '49 were to blue pencil every word, phrase, or paragraph which does not contribute to whatever single intention provoked "Gino's Little Brother," he might have considerably intensified his effect. As it is, he keeps dragging diversions before the eye and ear in an amusing but disturbing...
Carol Cohen's "The Pencil King" is diffuse in a different way. Her sensibility to experience is abnormal. This is the beginning of any art, but is also the beginning of madness. She does not make the usual associations, or think in the hackneyed categories, which means that she has it within her grasp to extend the reader's sensibility to a new pattern of perceptions...
...point discrimination sense. The vibratory sense is lodged in bone, which can feel the vibration of a tuning fork even when surrounding tissue cannot. Two-point discrimination (in itself a two-part sensory apparatus) can best be demonstrated with a schoolboy's compass whose steel and pencil points are an inch apart. Held against the back, this feels like a single object -the skin of the back has little two-point discrimination, and may need to have the compass spread three or four inches. But the hand can distinguish the two points when they are but a fraction...
...Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Writer Rufus Terral examined the mixture of metaphor that streamed out of President Eisenhower's press conference last week, grasped his pencil like a sword and fired this broadside of ironic gripeshot...
...Hoffnung, who for years has been satirizing the music business. In his cartoons, tubby Artist Hoffnung has created a wonderfully zany world-the bass fiddler peers from behind his instrument through a periscope; an old huge-wheeled bicycle becomes a harp; the phrenetic maestro sharpens his baton with a pencil sharpener. Purpose of the Hoffnung concert (recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall with a full symphony orchestra and some of Britain's leading musicians) was to translate the cartoons into sound. The result is spectacular, in a sort of highbrow Spike Jones vein...