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...Kansas City, discovered that passengers who flew over a route at least twice a month were entitled to buy "commutation tickets," and thus avoid paying the 15% federal transportation tax. Mid-Continent expects to run eleven commuter routes (sample: Kansas City-Tulsa), sell commuters' ticket books (four tickets, valid for one month) at an 18% discount. At least six other major lines intend to start commuter services...
...There is a general and valid acknowledgment that the better the painter the dumber he must be, and out of this dumbness the critic is born and makes hay." French-born Jean Chariot, who wrote that bitter-seeming remark, is himself a cheerful contradiction of it. Chariot (rhymes with Hello) makes hay on both sides of the field. Last week his paintings and colored lithographs were packing people in at Colorado Springs's George Nix Gallery (including museum buyers from as far away as Washington, D.C. and San Diego), while Chariot himself expatiated on art in the Colorado Springs...
...convicts diffidently admitted that it didn't seem entirely true to life, but it is an abler and more honest try in that direction than most movies. There is impressively little hamming-up of story, and the characterizations and the danger and the suspense are unusually real and valid...
Both techniques, says Father White, are valid means of combating two forms of evil - one called sin and one called psychoneurosis. "But the evil with which each is concerned is essentially different, even mutually opposed. Sin is denned as an evil human act . . . malum culpae -'the evil men do' ... A psychoneurosis, on the contrary, is a certain malum poenae - an 'evil men suffer' or 'undergo' . . . Confession presupposes the power to sin and to turn from sin and seek forgiveness ; analysis usually presupposes necessity and impotence...
Saroyan is an entertainer of a kind overrated by some people and underrated by others-a very gifted schmalz-artist. In the schmalz-artist strength and weakness are inextricably combined-the deeply, primordially valid, and the falseness of the middle-aged little boy who dives back into the womb for pennies...