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Since his death Orwell has become a kind of paragon to many writers. Those who have not stopped with Lionel Trilling's conclusion that "He was a virtuous man," have used this conclusion to vindicate the cherished suspicions that each has imputed to Orwell's now-protean figure. Hollis' attempt to Christianize Orwell is no more mistaken than the projections of R. J. Voorhees, for instance, who writes about Orwell's "Secular crusade," or of John Atkins who calls him a "social saint," forgetting perhaps that Orwell had written in his essay on Gandhi, "Sainthood is a thing human beings...
...Panorama of Progress"). In the capital's Aurora park he set thousands of masons and carpenters working to finish the fair for last week's grand opening. But heavy rains and the breakdown of the country's only cement plant were too much for even the protean Toriello. On the day the show was to open with a bigtime bullfight, featuring bulls and toreros imported from Spain and Mexico, the new bull ring was not ready; there was no outer wall around the stadium to bar gate-crashers...
...Paris school of painting boasts five aged masters who probably have less in common than the members of any other "school" in art history. They are protean Pablo Picasso, bubbly Henri Matisse, smoldering Georges Rouault, sherbet-cool Georges Braque-and the least famous of the lot, Fernand Léger. The U.S. is getting to know Léger better this year, through a retrospective exhibition of his work arranged by Chicago's Art Institute. Last week, after a six-week stay in Chicago, the 125-item show opened at the San Francisco Museum of Art. Manhattan...
...apart. U.S., British and Belgian researchers are hard at work testing yet another new drug, daraprim. A thousand times as powerful as quinine, it can be taken in tiny, tasteless doses, and newborn Negro babies in Africa show no ill effects. So far, varying results with daraprim reflect the protean nature of malaria itself...
...controversial artist of the 20th Century. He has been praised to heaven (Mexican Painter Diego Rivera: "I have never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso") and damned to hell (British Critic Michael Ayrton: "He is the archangel Lucifer"). He has also been the century's most protean artist, moving vigorously from one new style and outlook to another. Latterly, though still attracting attention, he has produced less & less consternation, largely because the world has got more used...