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...requires dogged and imaginative diplomacy. As a result, he has occasionally aroused the suspicion and enmity of the right. The McCarthyite press attacked him in the early '50s because of his association with the "Red Dean," Acheson, and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater and Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond tried, in vain, to prevent his confirmation to the Navy job a decade later...
...particularly striking scene depicts the woman's childhood memory of roaming through a lumberyard with her mother in hopes of finding her father's name carved on one of the logs sent there from a labor camp; their search is in vain, but another woman does spot her husband's initials and caresses them tenderly. Another memorable sequence shows the defendant's artist father, dressed only in a white loincloth, hanging by his wrists like the crucified Christ. It is one of several explicit religious images that portray the struggle of good against evil in a way that unfailingly identifies...
Blessed with a private income from his parents in Lancaster, Pa., coddled in childhood, lame, diabetic, vain, insecure and brilliantly talented, Demuth lacked neither admirers nor colleagues. He was well read, his tastes formed by Pater, Huysmans, Maeterlinck and the Yellow Book, and he gravitated to Greenwich Village as a Cafe Royal dandy in embryo. Perhaps the main reason Demuth has not been seen in depth before is that some of the paintings that meant the most to him were not thought exhibitable. For Demuth was homosexual; not a flaming queen, in fact rather a discreet gay, but still loath...
...life?...' You must quickly jump to action with some obvious truism such as, 'Well, isn't art, in a way, an imitation of life? I mean in a sense isn't it true that in a symbolic sense we can see ourselves in art? You can continue in this vain until someone threatens...
Baffled cameramen aim their lenses right, left, then right again, while radio and TV announcers try in vain to identify the correct ball handler...