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...avoided the acidulous sting of her satiric fiction. She was not the cruelly self-conscious McCarthy of The Company She Keeps (1942), with its heroine's interminable self-dissection and motive-mongering after making love in a Pullman car with "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt." This famous sketch, which had run previously in the Partisan Review, established her reputation and set the pattern for the heroine of her subsequent novels...
...Dealers Work. Auctions sketch in the main outlines of art's price picture; it remains for dealers to shade in the details. The best dealers are men and women of experience and taste, heavily relied upon by the richest collectors-the Mellons, Morgans, Huntingtons, Fricks, Wideners and Kresses of the past, and the Rockefellers, Onassises, Fords, Lehmans and Chryslers of the present. History's most famous dealer was Joseph Duveen, who before his death, in 1939, sold art to many of the major collectors of London, New York and Paris. It is said that Lord Duveen spent...
...others in this show approach Miss Rochlin's spontaneity. Deborah Ellis' pen sketch of a paunchy man (first prize in the graphics division) is pleasant and even humorous but occasionally rather unsure of anatomical detail. Among other drawings worth noting is a nude, "I' Arlesienne," by Adrianne Aldrich '62. Miss Aldrich, who knows her Toulouse-Lautrec almost overly well, does a fine job of capturing the feline quality of her subject...
...large. Those who never would and never will buy Firbank at any price include those who can't stand the affectations of others ("even my lungs are affected," Firbank admitted); those who like a story with a beginning, middle and end; those who find vicious or blasphemous a sketch of a homosexual cardinal; and, finally, those who ask that a novel should be about the sort of people they know or would like to know...
...until he feels like "The Soldier Who Saw Everything Twice" (the ironic title of one chapter). Heller fights a nip-and-tuck battle with the twin temptations of redundance and abundance, succumbs shamelessly to blatant gag writing until much of his dialogue resembles an old Smith & Dale vaudeville sketch ("Why can't you marry me?" "Because you're crazy." "Why am I crazy?" "Because you want to marry me"). But an overdose of comic non sequitur and an almost experimental formlessness are not enough to extinguish the real fire of Catch...