Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly, gratuitously, Josef rapes and murders a little neighbor girl. Celestine, having quit that day, is waiting for a train to Paris when she hears of the atrocity, mysterious to the populace but transparent to her intuition...
...clash of contrasting styles, curious continuities emerge. Kinetic art, one of the latest movements, represented by Sculptors Jean Tinguely and Pol Bury, is foreshadowed by Gino Severini's The Armored Train (opposite page), an example of World War I futurism that abstracts the warring motion of an ironclad railway car into shock waves, lacking only POW! ZIP! BAM! in cartoon balloons to become pop art. And Severini died just this year at the age of 83. Optical art is another trend of the '60s. Yet a flat pattern of particolored isosceles triangles called Iridescent Interpenetration...
...that "liberal arts colleges should have the guts to say to Harvard and Yale that they don't want any more overtrained, overspecialized Ph.D.s, many of whom are really incompetent to talk to undergraduates." University of California President Clark Kerr deplores the fact that "nothing is being done" to train teachers, calls it "a tragedy that we take teaching assistants, throw them in without preparation, leave them by and large neglected...
...nearly every member of a fine, worried cast is slowly undone when Veteran Director Claude Autant-Lara (Devil in the Flesh) begins to philosophize on film about the complex, overlapping nature of guilt. Putting the squeeze on a crafty plot from a novel by Patricia Highsmith (Strangers on a Train), Autant-Lara seemingly distills a number of small, disturbing revelations and holds each one up to the light, testing for color, clarity and body. The results are heady vin de table, if not quite vintage stuff...
These two novellas illustrate how evanescent a Calisher point can be when it is pursued to its core. On the New York-to-Boston train, in The Railway Police, is a woman social worker who wears wigs to hide a hereditary baldness. Seeing a ticketless passenger led away by the railway cops, the social worker abruptly decides to follow his example -to be a vagrant; that is, to exercise "the right to be out of the organized world." Girdle, rings, bank account, wig -everything is abandoned for the park-bench life...