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...mainly of food and flowers, the pictures were both exact and relaxed. Menocal had arranged his objects casually against solid black or bright backgrounds and made them glow by means of many superimposed glazes. His art celebrates small but enduring things: the coolness of sliced cucumber, the blue dusk shade of cornflowers, the pungency of spilled paprika, the gleam of a lily or a linen handkerchief. On opening day more than half the pictures were sold...
...could find no tragedy in the end of her independence--her longing to embrace life and soar on her imagination--in the prison of a marriage based on hatred and convention. The Isabel of her words alone seems only the Isabel with whom James began, "the mere slim shade of an innocent and presumptuous girl," the shade to which it was his prime goal to give body and importance...
...articles [Oct. 11 et seq.] On the anti-segregation disturbances . . .certainly must be edifying to non-American readers the world over, especially here in the Middle East, where the inhabitants' skin color is usually a shade or two darker than those lofty-browed Anglo-Saxon types in the photographs accompanying your [Oct. 11] article . . . What a profound impression this must make-these Americans, always broadcasting about freedom and equality and the "American way of life" and what a great little country we are . . . As an American living abroad, I find myself wondering about my countrymen, especially that superior breed...
...picture. But even Laughton is comparatively restrained, and his co-stars, Bernda deBanzie and John Mills, are positively sparse in their underplaying. For Hobson's choice, whose comedy is of the delicate, throw-away nature, this is the precise treatment required. Moreover, during their scenes of pointed, only a shade below cloying, sweetness, Mills and Miss deBanzie are not hampered by the audience's recollection of them mugging and taking pratfalls but a moment before...
Like Reconstruction, Harry Truman is something the Deep South never quite got over. Last week three South Carolina newspapers printed an interview with his old military aide, Harry Vaughan, which said that both Truman and Vaughan endorsed Senatorial Candidate Edgar Brown. Brown squirmed like a husband with the wrong shade of lipstick on his collar; his enemies could hardly suppress their glee...