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Some of Strindberg's Paris paintings are depressing studies in black, grey and various shades of brown. Others are shrill compositions of hard whites and yellows, oranges and blues, set against a frame of green that is liberally sprinkled with scarlet and purple dots. In one, the colors blend into something resembling mother-of-pearl; another was obviously begun by rubbing together two pieces of cardboard wet with color to make what Strindberg called "automatic painting." The show is about to take the grand tour: when it closes in Ulm, it will move to the Museum of Modern...
...Oran, the two biggest cities, were solidly in S.A.O. hands. Algiers, with 800,000 people, resounded night and day to the thud of plastic bombs and the rattle of submachine guns; the staccato European war cry of Al-gé-rie Fran-çaise! was answered by the shrill Moslem incantation of "Yn! Yu! Yu!" Oran, a city facing the sea but turned inward on itself like a snail, was once called "the capital of boredom." Now its 400,000 people (half European, half Moslem) were bored only with mutual slaughter. The Oran prefect was hiding at the center...
...newly independent black nations, it is not easy these days to be a moderate, for the shrill cry against white men or colonialism can still whip up the biggest crowds. Last week Black Africa's two top statesmen, both distinguished for their moderation, were adjusting their policies to radical pressures...
Though no Western government, including that of Konrad Adenauer, supports nuclear armament of West Germany outside of NATO control, Touring Lecturer Eleanor Roosevelt, 77, cast a shrill chill over a Temple Israel audience in Long Beach, Calif., by proclaiming that the very thought of atomic weapons in German hands "terrifies me. Eighty per cent of West Germany's officials are ex-Nazis. They say none of them liked Hitler, but every day people go over to that now empty bunker [where der FÜhrer died] and stand . . ." Unnoted by Mrs. Roosevelt was the fact that Hitler...
...reflex-quick, her voice can shower feathery trills on an audience or take perilous leaps with agility and astonishing accuracy. It can trace graceful arabesques of passion or float from note to note with liquid ease. Most remarkable, it does not thin out, as do most coloratura voices, into shrill parody in the upper register. Indeed, Sutherland's upper register is her best: she can soar in full voice to a high E-flat, a fact that she demonstrated brilliantly last week in the Mad Scene from Lucia...