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...PAUL KLEE, edited by Felix Klee. Like his contemporaries Freud and Jung. Artist Klee sought out the hieroglyphs of the heart, and embodied them in squiggly, childlike paintings. His diaries follow a parallel course, for he lived a life of impromptu ebullience and left to the world an unself-conscious record of youthful escapades and cheerful self-indulgence...
...fairminded, but 1 do wish this country had a little less of the intellectual fringe and more horse sense." On his first visit to India as Commonwealth Relations Secretary, Home questioned the value of neutrality in talks with government leaders. "Weakness invites aggression," he said. He is an informal, unself-conscious diplomat who sometimes shows up for conferences in old worn carpet slippers, but his blunt talk often infuriates people. A cherished tribute to his forensic skill is a cable he received after one outspoken verdict. "To hell with you," it said. "Offensive letter follows...
...sort of thing the great Florentine would have written had he had to add an Eleventh Day to the Decameron in Italy in 1970. But Directors Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica, each contributing a story to this motion picture triptych, give moviegoers not so much the unself-conscious bawdry of Boccaccio as the neopagan body worship that a witty Vatican editorialist recently styled "erotic vagrancy...
...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. Around four frayed lives on a Mexican veranda, Williams has fashioned an unself-pitying play of self-transcendence. Margaret Leighton's performance is a touchstone of the acting...
...Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams. Around four frayed lives on a Mexican veranda, Williams has fashioned an unself-pitying play of self-transcendence. Margaret Leighton's performance is a touchstone of the acting...