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...CROSSING, by Jean Reverzy (256 pp.; Pantheon; $3.50). The French eye is quick to see beauty, even quicker to see the fatal corruption that lies beneath. This disquieting first novel by a French physician has such a theme: it tells of Palabaud, who has spent sunlit years in Tahiti and has now come home to the bourgeois grey of France to die of an enormously swollen liver...
...climate and position, this million-square-mile sea of coves and arms and islets is made to man's measure. "Like frogs around a pond," said Plato, "we have settled down upon the shores of this sea." Island-hopping along Aegean shores in the haze of lazy, sunlit waters, the Phoenicians and Greeks of 30 centuries ago first learned the arts of maritime commerce, and of naval war-including the amphibious landing. Across the golden bridge of the Grecian islands the civilizations of the Valleys of the Nile and Euphrates first advanced to Europe. Across this strategic roadway world...
...attractive as anything seen this year, with the beautiful faces of novices hanging raptly over the child's crib and their lullabies blending with the plainsong devotions from the chapel. The play was dreamlike, as sweet as a sugar bun and scarcely more substantial, but it was also sunlit with innocence and warmly acted by Judith Anderson. Evelyn Varden. Deirdre Owens and. particularly, by Ireland's Siobhan (pronounced Shivaun) McKenna...
...Wichita (Kans.) Art Museum. A Little Yes and a Big No, the title of Grosz's autobiography, sums up his attitude to life. But though his little yes in the years since 1932, when he came to the U.S., has produced some pleasant, classic nudes and some sunlit passages of Cape Cod dunes, it is Grosz's big no wrenched out of his own past and flung violently across the canvas, that gives his work its strength and impact. The Determined No. Each turn of Grosz's early life in Germany seemed only to strengthen his determined...
...sunlit horseshoe of the stadium at Forest Hills, Long Island, a roaring chorus of Waltzing Matilda rose from the north section of the stands. Some 300 Australians were cheering the return, after a brief eight-month stay in the U.S., of the Davis Cup to Australia. With some 12,500 Americans, the. Aussie visitors watched Harry Hopman's brilliant youngsters outshoot and outrun U.S. Tennists Vic Seixas and Tony Trabert in three straight matches. There were few surprises, but some magnificent tennis...