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...drop? One reason, according to Department of Labor officials who prepared the report, is sim ply that the economy grew rapidly in 1977. Some 4.1 million people were added to civilian payrolls during the year, the largest number of Americans to find jobs in any year since World War II. But department officials also explained that the December drop in unemployment is not as big as it looks. Reason: the Government recalculated unemployment figures for all of 1977, using new data to adjust for seasonal fluctuations. The department now estimates that the jobless rate hit a high of 7.6% last...
Died. Alastair Sim, 75, doleful-vis-aged British actor of stage and screen; of cancer; in London. During a marvelous 50 years of playing bedeviled headmasters, bungling sleuths and dotty bishops (he officiated at Peter O'Toole's wedding in The Ruling Class), Sim deftly dodged interviews. But he once let it be known that it was revealed to him "many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right...
...Prisoners guilty of "all crimes or failings of political intention or of opinion." Chief among these are scores of imprisoned Spanish Communists, whose party is still illegal despite a recent thaw in relations between the government and the democratic opposition. Among the first to be released were Simón Sánchez Montero and Santiago Alvarez, two leading officials in the party hierarchy who were jailed earlier this year...
Tricolors and Parasols. This sim ple optimism, underlying the aggressive color, is the main difference between Fauvism and expressionism. Every where one turns in this show, pleasure is celebrated: the tricolores and red, white and blue parasols in Raoul Dufy's street scenes, the rosy theatrical vigor of Van Dongen's scene of a couple out side a brothel. The Hussar (Liverpool Night House), 1906, the slapdash but infectious ebullience of Vlaminck's still lifes. The best sight of all, though, is Matisse inventing the Mediterranean; it is amazing to find how deeply one's images...
...York section of the book is weaker; perhaps it should have been written by a Soviet. For the satire of the left-wing academic community lacks teeth, and too many plot turns seem to occur in the last third of the novel, sim ply because something has to happen. One touch, however, indicates the book's essential virtue. Yuri Maximovich is trying to decide whether to defect. To stall for time, he must sell out and read the KGB's poem. He does so. But first, more artist than survivor, he takes the wretched thing apart and sharpens...