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...pictures of the U.S. have the freshness of discovery, for Grosz was in fact discovering a new world. And as the second world war drew closer, his old ferocity returned in the form of a raging compassion. The satire of A Man of Opinion, which induces a smile of scorn, was gone. His later paintings were to a large extent cries of anguish, not against a particular people but in behalf of all mankind. Ghostly "stickmen"-men that were no longer men-populated his world; and in his tortured oils, the hell that was always next to him burned with...
...introduction, Novelist Evelyn Waugh deftly sums up Carson's rare special quality: "His associates are almost all of the underworld; his own condition is precarious; his morality, as he describes it, is extremely loose; but he betrays no resentment or scorn of those whose habits are more orderly. He is a hedonist and a sensualist joyfully celebrating the huge variety of life. There is something of Norman Douglas in him, something of Firbank, nothing at all of the 'sick' or the 'beat...
...them seemed to have second thoughts about Castroland. Clinton M. Jencks, 19, a psychology student at San Francisco State College, had his Castro-style beard shaved off and frankly declared that he was disillusioned with Cuba and that he had "had it." Later, subjected to the scorn of his fellow travelers, he denied the statement. Most of the other students stuck to their well-publicized first impressions of the "simply wonderful things Castro has done...
When Wallace finished, Katzenbach asked him to "step aside." Wallace simply stood there. "From the outset, Governor," said Katzenbach, "all of us have known that the final chapter of this history will be the admission of these students." Wallace remained silent, glaring with melodramatic scorn. "Very well," said Katzenbach. He turned away, and, under a prearranged plan, the feds escorted the two students to their dormitory rooms...
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 (Philadelphia Orchestra; Columbia) was rehabilitated in 1961 after 25 years of official scorn in Russia; Shostakovich meekly labeled his next symphony "A Soviet Artist's Reply to Just Criticism." Now, in its first American recording, the Fourth is worth hearing mainly to find out what all the fuss was about. Whatever its polemic content may be, it sounds clumsily Mahlerian and full of papier-maché grandeur...