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Franz Kafka, Parable and Paradox, by Heinz Politzer. The most trenchant study to date of the strange writer in whose nightmarish parables of human alienation 20th century man has found a chilling portrait of himself...
Franz Kafka, Parable and Paradox, by Heinz Politzer. The most trenchant study to date of the strange writer in whose nightmarish parables of human alienation 20th century man has found a chilling portrait of himself...
Stevenson did not sit for his portrait, and Shahn mostly relied on his own memory of him. "One has a multiple image of a person seen so often in public, in the press and on TV," says Shahn, who then set out to catch in a few strokes a likeness faithful to that multiple impression that existed in his mind...
...phrases as 'Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes.' " But the Post compensates for the lack of a surprise ending by hammering away at the villain. The Munich quote is bannered across the top of one page. Opposite is a full-page portrait of Adlai, chin in hand, looking like a man who is incapable of making up his Christmas list. "Stevenson was strong during the U.N. debate," reads the caption, "but inside the White House the hard-liners thought he was soft...
Approaching the painter of an avantgarde canvas titled Self-Portrait, Khrushchev asked, "Have you a mother?" "She's dead," stammered the artist. Replied Nikita: "She would die a second time if she saw your self-portrait." He spotted another objectionable work. "How much was paid for it?" inquired the Premier. Told the price was 3,000 rubles, he cried: "Deduct it from the salaries of those who approved the purchase...