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Shown with other surrealists--perhaps Ernst, Tanguy, or Tchelitchew--the faults would be far less obvious, and the imaginative and fastidious qualities of Dali's art would emerge. Here, his miniaturist style seems fussy, his conceptions both bizarre and trivial, his composition crowded, and his symbols--crutches, telephones, and flabby amorphous heads--typed and repetitious...
...prisoners shipped to other centers, ugly stories came to light. Tear gas had been used frequently; authorities argued that this was the "most humane" way of treating mobs. There had been a riot in which prisoners were shot. There had been brutality by the guards, and mass punishment for trivial offenses. Examples: exposure in freezing weather on a windy hill; confinement of 15 men for 36 hours in a 6-by-10-ft. "hole" where they could neither sit nor stand erect. Reported an education officer...
TIME is supposed to give us the significant news of the week. Why, then, do you waste so much valuable space on trivial events...
...seek out the sources of my thoughts," he writes in The Coming of Fate, "I find they had their beginning in fragile Chance; were born of little moments that shine for me curiously in the past. Slight the impulse that made me take this turning at the crossroads, trivial and fortuitous the meeting, and light as gossamer the thread that first knit me to my friend.... So I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents. Why, today, perhaps, or next week. I may hear a voice...
There is some truth in Bernard Shaw's contention that it seems "a farcical comedy of the seventies, not performed at the time, because it was too witty and too decent," but it has, too, a strong kinship with the insincere and trivial, but highly amusing, social comedies of the Restoration. Altogether, it is a genial, if shallow exposition of Wilde's philosophy, a philosophy in which literature is governed by style and not ideas, and life by taste rather than ideals...