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Here Comes the Commander. But the torrent of immigration after 1920 was slowed, by national law, to a trickle. The children of the foreigners went to U.S. schools and learned U.S. ways. The welfare state, with its vast governmental social services, sublimated and institutionalized the old relationship between the political machine and the helpless. After Charles F. Murphy, the bosses of Tammany Hall lived with their memories and on petty political thievery, fought among themselves, and scratched their heads in wonderment at their low estate. Then Carmine De Sapio came along to tell them what had happened...
Dark, dramatic, with deep-set eyes burning in a gaunt face, at 53 Malraux has the looks proper to a hero, the talk proper to a genius. His ideas gush out in a torrent that overwhelms friends. His talk ranges from obscure Japanese painters to customs of American Indians, from Swiss primitives to Buddhist philosophers. He has argued Communism with Trotsky Hinduism with Nehru. In his dazzling transitions and far-flung references, he is a conversational wonder of the world made the more difficult to follow by his nervous facial tics and a constant snuffling into his hand caused...
Does Welles-playing Othello, of course-stride on screen to erupt a Shakespearean torrent? Depend on it, the camera will be angled upward from the floor so that Welles looms at least ten feet high while the other actors seem scarcely more than midgets...
...started to make out a ticket, Tourist Morse started to talk. He had lost the muffler in suburban Bethesda, he explained. If the cop would just have a heart, he could fix it himself at the Hains Point tourist camp and save a few dollars. Under the torrent of Morse's argument the policeman relented, tore up the ticket and wearily directed Morse to the camp. Last week Morse was still noisily disturbing the peace of Washington, still arguing endlessly and effectively...
Splotched Fantasies. From that point forward, Klee produced a frosty torrent of little dream pictures (there are some 900 in U.S. collections alone). By catching his dreams on the wing, and being quite satisfied with just a feather, he was able to produce an almost endless variety. Some of his works resemble children's squiggles, others the splotched fantasies of the mad. Still others are made entirely of dots, or squares, or crosshatchings, or Oriental arabesques. Some of his pictures are composed simply of illegible script-foreshadowing Cartoonist Saul Steinberg. He illustrated Candide with raggedy stick figures...