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This week the Modern announced that six canvases in the show will permanently-grace, its cool halls. Cézanne's Boy in a Red Waistcoat (donated by David Rockefeller) helps the Modern correct what it considers the "weakness" of its late 19th century collection. Cézanne's canvases are currently thought to be a sort of touchstone of modern art-he is the idolized grandfather whose very presence lends authority to the struggles of his successors-and the Boy is an excellent example "of his pioneering portraiture...
...more than 270 U.S. dailies. Cartoonist "Lichty" has created such harried, irascible characters as potbellied, spindle-legged Bascomb Belchmore. Senator Snort, Mr. Snodgrass, and a diabolical moppet named Otis. They are inevitably trapped in ridiculous situations of their own making. In one cartoon Senator Snort, .dressed in flowered waistcoat and bat-winged collar, tells a group of reporters: "I welcome any inquiry into my program for a foreign policy, gentlemen ... I have often wondered what it is myself." Last week Cartoonist Lichty was forced to grin and bear a real-life situation as ludicrous as any he has ever drawn...
Twenty Crises. Last week Reynaud's intelligence and courage and authority were in action at the office he occupies as chairman of the powerful Assembly Finance Committee. Sitting stiffly upright at his desk, with scarcely a crease in his double-breasted waistcoat, he wrote out in longhand a set of proposals for reforming the French constitution to enable ministers to stay in office long enough to conduct responsible government. Although he himself had voted against the Mendès-France government, and thus helped bring on its collapse, he told a press conference that this 20th ministerial crisis...
...Modern Short Novels may be disconcerted to discover that it actually contains six great modern short novels. Ordinarily, he may be no more likely to buy the hard-cover editions of these works than he would be to go shopping for a pack of otter hounds or a brocade waistcoat. But if he reads this volume, undeterred by the crepitation of bursting glue from the spine, he will have exposed himself to more first-class writing than can be found on the entire 1954 fiction list of U.S. and British publishers...
...attack every woman I meet [to] form my character") was softened by the timid lover ("With a little more assurance or a little less love, I would perhaps have been sublime and would have had her"). The fluttering social butterfly ("I was brilliant ... I was wearing a waistcoat, silk breeches and black stockings, with a cinnamon-bronze coat, a very well arranged cravat, a superb frill . . . My whole soul appeared") was brought to earth by the lucid critic ("I realize that the works I've written stink...