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...color without the trace of an image. These are Moreau's "abstractions," and much is made of the fact that he squeezed paint on canvas directly from the tube, used his palette knife instead of a brush, and left his fingerprints still visible. Was he the great "precursor" of 20th century abstraction? "There is no answer," says Dore Ashton, and a viewer may be tempted to wonder whether it really matters...
...Whoever will not be the hammer will in history be the anvil . . . The sword was always the precursor of the plow, and if one speaks at all of human rights, then war deserves in this single case the highest right . . . Every healthy folk sees in the acquisition of territory nothing sinful but something natural...
Died. John B. (for Bright) Kennedy, 67, radio's pungent Garroway precursor, onetime managing editor of Collier's, who moderated Mutual's folksy People's Rally in the 1930s, gave the first network airing to scores of notables, including Al Smith; following intestinal surgery; in Toronto...
Died. Powel Crosley, Jr., 74, owner of baseball's Cincinnati Reds, manufacturer of low-cost radios and refrigerators and of the midget Crosley auto, a 30-h.p., $800 precursor of the compacts; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati. A onetime chauffeur and telephone repairman who developed the $22 million Crosley Corp., he moved from venture to venture, never earning more than $20 a week until he hit 30. "If I've batted .300, that's lucky," said Crosley, who batted considerably less with his ball club, saw it win but two pennants, finish in the second division...
What critics exhume is seldom the writer who was buried. Where Goethe found perversity and disease, critics today find "true greatness," "a hero of the modern spirit," a precursor of Stendhal, Freud, D. H. Lawrence and Franz Kafka. Thomas Mann, Germany's greatest 20th century novelist, calls Von Kleist in the preface (written in 1955) to this book a "storyteller of the very first order." In this first English translation of his collected stories, the proofs are not always convincing. The compulsive violence that runs through these tales (notably Michael Kohlhaas, The Earthquake in Chile...