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...this full-dress biography, the late French Critic Gérard Jean-Aubry, editor of Conrad's letters, has taken soundings along the well-charted course of the Conrad legend. The legend is well known? the young Polish exile who began to learn English from Lowestoft sailors at 21, became a ship's master at 29, voyaged to the Caribbean and the China Seas, and who, at 36, took to the shore and, despite poverty, neglect and illness, made himself a master novelist. It is all true. Jean- Aubry, who spent 20 years writing this book, fills in the blank spaces...
Apart from the animal motif, Ritchard has staged the affair with the wit of a Gilbert-and-Sullivan romp and the style of a top-drawer fancy-dress ball. Bouncing about like a tall, elegant puppet, he lives up to the excellent settings by Rolf Gérard (including a hilarious-looking Dungeon for Recalcitrant Husbands) and he delivers the lines and lyrics of Playwright Maurice Valency's able English adaptation with skilled gusto. In fact, Ritchard is guilty of only one flaw. He has included a cancan that is danced by the corps de ballet in more...
...Grand Maneuver. René Clair, vintage 1956, brut-a bubbling tale of love and languishment; with Michele Morgan, Gérard Philipe (TIME...
Yale taste ranges generously over 500 years of art, from Hans Memling's Annunciation, El Greco's Christ Bearing Cross and Rembrandt's Gèrard de Lairesse, all owned by Manhat tan Financier Robert Lehman ('13), to such high-velocity moderns as Jackson Pollock's Wounded Beast, 1943, owned by lectors' Art taste Critic is most Thomas B. accurately Hess ('42). reflected by But the current heavy U.S. corncetration in 19th and 20th century European masters. Top favorite: Picasso (seven paintings), followed by Degas, Braque, Cèzanne, Delacroix, Renoir, Van Gogh...
...RARD'S dull, dangerous protest is typical of the logic of some 5,000,000 Communist voters of all ages. But he is a rare bird among youth in that he has, by some kind of thinking process, related his own troubles to a need for political action. Most young Frenchmen refuse to make the connection or simply cannot. Everywhere in France youth's political feelings can be characterized in a single word: indifference...