Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shortest story of the issue, Catherine Dawson's Stefan is the sketch of a sewing plant worker. In its repetition and harsh conclusion, Stefan resembles the stories of Sherwood Anderson, sometimes enough so as to seem affected. Written with economy and a great care for words, however, Stefan is a good story because it seems to matter...
...tour, pudgy little Georgy Malenkov kept smiling his guileless-looking kewpie doll's smile, fascinating working girls, and murmuring sweet nothings to every Briton within handshaking range of his far-flying ZIS limousine. "Such a charmer," said the Daily Herald. "Irresistible," admitted a woman from the Tory Daily Sketch. Last week, between sending a Russian perfume called "Night" to Ballerina Margot Fonteyn and paying a visit to Karl Marx's grave in London's Highgate Cemetery, the adroit advance man for Khrushchev and Bulganin smiled unrlaggingly through a huge farewell press conference at the Russian embassy...
...This sketch of the social and economic groups which may merge into a new majority alignment or dissent from it is necessarily brief, incomplete, and tentative. It is clear in any event that neither of the two political parties can in itself provide the completely effective political instrument for such a majority. As with the earlier shifts in basic alignment we have discussed, a new grouping that is really adequate to the world challenge is almost certain at many points to cut across existing party lines and the narrower interests now reflected in them...
...result, Rubens returned to Antwerp aged 31 in 1608, both a skilled courtier, versed in eight languages, and a master artist with the whole repertory of Renaissance techniques at his fingertips. In drawings such as his sketch for Daniel in the Lions' Den (left), he proved that he could infuse into classical and Biblical themes a new verve and power distinctively his own. Respectably married to the pretty daughter of a conservative Antwerp lawyer, and appointed court painter to the sovereigns of the Spanish Netherlands. Rubens so prospered that he finally complained to a friend: "To tell the truth...
Encouragingly, however, the issue contains still more excellent fiction--selections again, from a novel in progress by James Reichley. The three sections, which appear here under the title "Shimonis," sketch quickly and incisively the character of a young, aggressive politician and the small Pennsylvania city in which he lives. Reichley's staccato prose is full of the broken rhythms of speech and laughter which fill the words with energy until they seem ready to burst from the page with excitement. Sometimes callous, sometimes raucous, always to the point, his style is very far from Agee...