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...report was more shocking to Parisian intellectuals than the original incident had been to the worshipers. To many, it sounded like a fair description of any eager young existentialist. So shrill, in fact, was the outcry that tendinous, hyperemotive Michel Mourre was released on bail, has written (for a couple of French newspapers) the memoirs of his autodidactic life as a Dominican student, as an existentialist, and as a bohemian...
Third prize went to Manhattan's Yasuo Kuniyoshi, whose works sometimes have the taste and balance of good Oriental art. His shrill, finicky Fish Kite did not. Joseph Hirsch's fourth-prizewinning view of Nine Men in a men's-room mirror was as skillfully done as anything in the show, and as dour. Hirsch had caught the cold light reflected from glass and white tiling, dramatically illuminated the begrimed and weary workmen cleaning up in its glare...
...latest snobographer to revive the discussion is Russell Lynes, an editor of Harper's who set himself up in a magazine article last year as an arbiter of high, low and middle brows. In Snobs, Arbiter Lynes patters along in Thackeray's large footsteps, rather like a shrill but amiable terrier at the end of a 100-year leash. His bark is sure to get plenty of attention, and his bite, though not very sharp, may even penetrate a few skins...
...which brought him little success; his mother, a onetime housemaid, became a rather incapable housekeeper. His own visage, which, in his journalistic heyday, beamed down on Londoners from billboards and the sides of the city's big red buses, was unrefined, not to say coarse; his voice was shrill and slightly cockney. While indubitably a born writer, he was not in the least an esthete -indeed, he compared Esthete Proust's Remembrance of Things Past to "a 20-year-old store catalogue." Though a staunch socialist and avid student of political economy, he considered Karl Marx "the worst...
...truck), Tandon was pelted with flowers. Headed by an elephant borrowed from an itinerant circus, the procession jogged through packed and bedecked streets. Behind Tandon's duck came 5,000 Congress delegates, a score of mounted military cadets and a group of 100 folk dancers tripping to the shrill notes of the flute-like shanai...