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...only known portrait of Picasso, painted at the height of the Cubist movement by one of Cubism's great saints and Picasso's great friend, the late José Gonzales or "Juan Gris" (John Grey). This ex-engineering student said, "The only possible pictorial technique is a sort of flat-colored architecture," used few brilliant colors, painted his Hommage à Picasso in green, brown and grey...
...laboratory lightning differs from starlight, so do the masterpieces of such kinetic moderns as Dali and Picasso seem to differ from those of past times. But other modern artists like to shine in some tranquillity, and of this steady sort two experts had exhibitions in Manhattan last week...
Most significant advance this year is the virtual disappearance of the familiar wobble-stick gearshift lever; almost all 1939 cars will sport some sort of steering-post-mounted gearshift either as standard or extra equipment. While most of these systems are merely conveniently placed substitutes for the old wobble-stick, some use the vacuum energy generated by the engine's air-intake systems to operate automatic clutching and transmission changing. A few 1939 models (with optional equipment) approach this trend's ultimate aim: to relieve the driver of all concern with transmission control, enabling him to give fuller...
...writing is all about. "I have written one word," he announces, "God." Altogether he intends to write three. The second will be "Is." The third: "Love." The announcement of this program makes dawning sense, for if Saroyan appears in his stories in any consistent role, it is as a sort of humanist jumping jack, waiting only until he has written a few more Books of Saroyan to leap forward as a U. S. prophet...
Only the momentum of his best-seller reputation keeps Author Hutchinson going. As Once You Were, the story of a middle-aged writer named Piers Exceat who retires to a small island-estate to re-live a sort of Boy Scout boyhood, makes Author Hutchinson's If Winter Comes seem in retrospect like hard-hammered realism. Not only has his sentimentality aged terribly but even his style has become wrinkled and chapfallen...