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...swimsuits the most important style of the year is the sleek, smooth suit. Elasticized faille is predicted a 70 per cent choice for swimwear this season, with vivid colors and stripes prominent. Cotton suits are noteworthy for their uncluttered look, and sleek lines are of course a natural in the knitted variety...
Died. Emil Nolde (real name: Emil Hansen), 88, pioneer German expressionist painter, who, with others of a group called Die Brücke (the Bridge), brought a vivid emotional style into German painting; in Seebüll, Germany. A major influence on German art, Nolde painted vigorous, glowing canvases, was a member of the Nazi Party, sold his "decadent" painting to Art Lover Hermann Göring while Hitler looked the other...
Sergeant Bunt is by far the most endearing and best drawn character in this scandalous novel-perhaps because he is a figment of Author Menen's vivid, jocular imagination. Most of the other characters in The Abode of Love have not this advantage. They are real, and so are most of the activities around which Menen builds this rococo piece of history told "in the form of a novel." The Rev. Henry James Prince (who takes the scabrous Bunt under his wing and is the principal character) was a flesh-and-blood renegade clergyman. In the 18403 Prince founded...
...prolific writer whose works range from poetry to nature studies and radio plays, Martinson spent ten years writing The Road. The book is a patchwork of brief, often vivid, sometimes homely episodes of tramps' lives as they knock on the doors and consciences of the respectable and industrious, or sleep among Sweden's lovely hills and forests...
Displaced Narrative. In portraying its altogether central figure, the play resorts, as perhaps it must, to peculiarly centrifugal stagecraft. There are too many episodes that, if vivid, are sketchy, hurried, discontinuous, that seem flashes of ethnic scenery rather than stretches of dramatic mileage. Mister Johnson not only concerns a man who cannot keep to the road; it unfolds its story with almost no road to keep to. It comes off a kind of displaced narrative: as Mister Johnson emerges neither native nor British, Mister Johnson emerges neither novel nor play. But if too fragmented and saltatory, it yields...