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...retrospect, the sturdy figure of Gertrude Stein looms over the cultural landscape of pre-World War I Paris like an old-fashioned radio-squat, massive, dark and droning out an endless stream of words. But if her words were sometimes tedious, her eye was seldom wrong. In fact, no American expatriate was a shrewder judge of Paris' radical new art. The Stein family, which came to be known as les Americains, made a powerful buying unit; it helped keep some of the best young artists in Europe alive. Gertrude's brother Leo (an aesthete of some pretension, some...
Died. Theodor Reik, 81, psychoanalyst, author, and protégé of Sigmund Freud; of heart disease; in New York. Part of Freud's small coterie in pre-World War I Vienna, Reik was one of his principal defenders in later years, expanding on classical Freudian theory in his 50 books. Masochism in Modern Man, his masterwork, proposed that the masochist is basically a pleasure seeker, whose outward need for humiliation expresses a more basic desire to be loved. In all his works, Reik displayed a refreshing freedom from technical jargon, as in Of Love and Lust, where...
...booze is in the show at Agassiz thanks to one man. Eugene O'Neill, whose one comedy, Ah Wilderness, is the show's source. While his play is essentially the story of two couples-one old, one young-who slowly but surely find happiness one Independence Day weekend in pre-World War I Centreville, Connecticut, O'Neill could not leave it that simple or that cute. Instead, he gives us a hero who is a good-natured but pathetic drunk and a heroine who is a lonely schoolteacher. All ends happily in the end, but there...
...discrimination because of what he is; each has been forced to use violence to survive in a society that continually threatened his life. Of course the relationship between the black and the Jew is more easily established and identifiable. After all, what is the difference between the pogroms of pre-World War H Europe and the race riots of the United States? What is the difference between the discrimination practiced against the Jews in pre-war Europe and that practiced against blacks in America in 1973? The difference is only one of subtlety...
...some clear day in the distant fu ture, U.S. highways may be filled with si lent, exhaustless electric cars. For the time being, however, such an auto remains as elusive as unpolluted air. Those venerable vehicles of the early 1900s, the Baker and Detroit Electrics of pre-World War I days required many hours of battery recharging for every hour on the road. To this day, the "refueling" problem is one of the major obstacles holding up production of a commercially competitive electric...