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Anti-Semitism. In the shadow of exile Moses and Monotheism was written. But no trace of lamentation shows in the tone of the book. We live, says Freud imperturbably, in remarkable times. For a long period it seemed that progress had made an alliance with barbarism, as in Russia, where a great attempt to lift the people to a higher standard of life was coupled with a ruthless suppression of free speech and thought. But in Germany this unnatural marriage has been dissolved, and barbarism proceeds alone...
...Nonobjective" art is the purist's name for abstract art in which no trace of actuality remains. A cubist breakdown of the statutory cubist wine bottle and guitar would not qualify. Solomon Guggenheim had grown grey in philanthropy and the copper business before he fell for his first nonobjective painting about eleven years ago. Since then he has accumulated 726 of them, the world's biggest private collection. His guide and friend in non-objectivity has been a fortyish, fervent lady artist, the Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen...
Americans who feel sure they are somebody's descendants sometimes ask Anthony Richard Wagner, 30, Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms (heraldic symbol-chaser) of the British royal household, to trace their British ancestry. Last week he announced a timely kinship: "Mr. Chamberlain and President Roosevelt are eighth cousins twice removed . . . descendants of a brother and sister of the early 17th Century. The brother came to America and the sister remained in England. The family where they join is the Cotymores, a Welsh family...
...light and entertaining pace. The mood of pre-war gaiety and Sunday excursions to the beach at New Rochelle is, made delightfully real. But once Vernon and Irene are happily married, the sad curse of a story without "boy seeks girl" throws the picture into dreariness. To recapture some trace of excitement, the standby for heart-three--the World War--is sensationally exploited and used especially to play on the audience's martial sympathy Vernon's tragic death in an aeroplane clash is sentimentalized to the point of insincerity. Ginger Rugers is perfect on the dance floor; in tears...
Hans Fallada (Little Man, What Now?), though not a Nazi, is still popular in Germany. But his Iron Gustav has been quietly blacklisted. Joseph Ponten's seven-volume historical novel will trace the emigrations of German minorities abroad, especially in Russia. Edwin Erich Dwinger's The Last Horsemen describes the futile attempt of a gang of German frontier soldiers to invade Courland and make it a German province...