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...days later. The Adamsons established a camp in the game reserve where Elsa had been turned loose, and kept a herd of goats to be doled out when the pregnant lioness could not hunt for herself (Joy Adamson is sentimental about all kinds of animals, but she is a realist, and pet lions do not eat canned cat food). Elsa's life in the bush did not affect her extraordinary trust of Mrs. Adamson; the author tells, for instance, of being allowed to feel the lioness' abdomen during the pregnancy, and records that Elsa often would stay...
...fiction, it is the story of a Kabalist Rabbi in Brooklyn who, searching for God's name, plays around with the magic number e=mc squared until he is struck by lightning. It isn't funny, because Tushnet patronizes the old Rabbi he has created and has a sentimental realist's way of describing things in too much detail. Better written is Daniel Eigerman's "Cirrhosis to Benefit by Gala," another short story; this one has bits of excellent dialogue and snatches of humor, but its two main characters, a Jewish photographer and an alcoholic society woman seem awfully familiar...
...angular Girl Wearing Bandanna by Yasuo Kuniyoshi. But even when the nude is at its most vigorous, its treatment varies dramatically from artist to artist. William Glackens' Nude with Apple is in standard studio pose-a composition of color rather than a slice of life. John Sloan, realist though he was, thought most painted nudes pornographic, concealed his in a kind of armor because "works of art are made of wood and bronze and oil paint, not flesh and blood...
Lane, bored, listens just closely enough to be able to dismiss the whole thing: "I mean I think all those religious experiences have a very obvious psychological background." He is supposedly talking as a realist, but he obviously knows nothing about reality. Franny, on the contrary?weak, overwrought, muttering mysticism ?has about her the luminous common sense and the clear eye for life that mark all the memorable Salinger girls of whatever age, from Phoebe Caulfield on. Eventually Franny faints. When the story first appeared, coed readers, earthy creatures all, ignored Salinger's mysticism and decided that...
...last J.F.K. has himself a tough-fisted realist for an adviser-and it's about time...