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...face of things, U.S. intervention had been a serio-comic failure. But it was not a fiasco. The U.S. principle was on record, in a specific case: that provisional governments have only provisional power until their people have a chance to speak...
...Ulysses vibrated like cold made-lightning between the cathodes of the most fluoroscopic symbolism and the most granitic naturalism. In Finnegans Wake naturalism and the artist himself all but disappear; the book is a shimmering death-dance of chameleon-like symbols; an attempt at nothing less than a complete serio-comic history of human consciousness-in Levin's neat phrase, a "doomsday book," culminating in a Phoenician paradox of dissolution and resurrection...
...both the right to vote and proof positive of objective, truth. The Crimson scribbler who maligned Mr. Davis in an editor's note attached to Mr. Davis letter must be banished to work for which he is better fitted. He has failed to recognize a master of the serio-jocose. The Crimson will certainly not retain in his present dangerous capacity a man who fails to recognize the new-Swift our Mr. Davis. Marion J. Levy...
...symbolized by the torn-out limbs of the rubber doll, monarchy lurking in the book Babar the King. Mark and Aaron both smile at this. They like the picture for the same reason others like it-because even when he chooses unpretty things to paint, Artist Bohrod's serio-comic detail tips the scale toward optimism...
...photographers can produce either: 1) composite photographs, in which the images are superimposed; or 2) photomontages, in which they make a composition. Combinations and variants are innumerable. To one school of photographers this technique is a low-grade amusement or else commercial fakery. Photomontage, however, was first used for serio-comic artistic purposes by the Dadaists around 1919, was later developed in Germany by Experimenters Moholy-Nagy and Walter Peterhans (see p. 50). It has been ably used for posters by Soviet Artist El Lissitzky, Swiss Herbert Matter, Hollander Cesar Domela-Nieuwenhuis, German Herbert Bayer, and badly used in many...