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...occupy a fairly conspicuous place in the history of 19th century French romantic art. But his most avid readers are usually unaware of his 450 drawings and watercolors, and even such biographers as Andre Maurois and Matthew Josephson scarcely mention this appealing side. Hugo's writings, his quarrel with Napoleon III, and his prodigious sex life have overshadowed his art. Yet last week, as the consequence of a show put up in his old Paris home (now a state museum) to mark the looth anniversary of the publication of Les Miserables, Parisians were belatedly discovering Hugo as an artist...
Nation may quarrel with nation, but automotively, at least, the international era has arrived. At the seventh annual International Automobile Show, which opened in Manhattan's Coliseum last week, it was hard to tell the European from the American entries. The Europeans are going Detroit while Detroit is going continental. And the mode for both is sportif...
Almost every story repeats the theme of the trapped American. The first story is appropriately entitled "Appearances". On the surface it describes the quarrel of a New York suburban couple over whether to attend a funeral. Using numerous arguments of social obligation the woman persuades her husband to abandon his weekly golf game and attend a funeral, for appearances. The confining pressures of habit--and resignation to it--are made vivid. "I took for granted that you'd be going to the funeral. I just took it for granted," Mrs. Ambrie explains. Her husband accepts this, saying "I suppose...
...lest Khrushchev appear to be the "coward" that Mao now called him. Now that the Chinese Reds have nailed their theses tothe Kremlin wall, some men in Moscow would be thinking of excommunication. Stalin's posthumous excommunication took only three years to accomplish; and already the Sino-Soviet quarrel has raged for longer than that...
There was no quarrel with Dolly's argument that New York needs its newspapers. The strike has deprived New Yorkers of 5,780,000 papers a day, has idled 20,000 workers, and has cost an estimated $100 million in wages, advertising and circulation revenue. But whether publication of the Post would do anything to help settle the argument was something else again...