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...their approach to picture-making that the two part company. Picasso seldom needs a model, worries very little about what he means to communicate. Lorjou spits on abstraction; he paints from life, loads his work with literary ideas. "The art of Lorjou," says French Critic Waldemar George, "is a shock which returns us to reality." His new painting, wrote another reviewer, "is disturbing to the extreme . . . because of the oracle that it demonstrates and makes shout...
...lessons went well. Under such discipline, Francis Gruber grew up to be one of the finest draftsmen of his generation, though his lines almost never described round, soft shapes. Hard, mean, digging, they hinted constantly at the pain that plagued him. His death meant the disappearance, wrote Paris Critic Waldemar George, of "the only painter who was capable of giving to French art a sense of ... the human values. Our only consolation is to know that his teaching will not be lost. In the end, the young will owe him much...
Germany, he insisted, was least guilty of any of the warring powers in World War II. He smeared Social Democratic Leaders Waldemar von Knoeringen (chief of the party's Bavarian unit) and Kurt Schumacher (national boss), and Schles-wig-Holstein's Christian Democratic Leader Theodor Steltzer as Anglo-American lackeys and informers. He sneered at them for making "such a big fuss about Hitler's barbarism against the Jews...
...University of California's Waldemar Christian Westergaard, 67, authority on Scandinavian history (Denmark and Slesvig, 1848-1864; The First Triple Alliance). Plump, pleasant Professor Westergaard long ago gave up classroom seminars ("hard seats don't mean hard heads"), preferred to teach in his own library, smoking a four-foot-long Danish pipe...
...same bitter circumstances that threaten to transform decent patriotism into indecent nationalism are conspiring also to choke democracy's growth. The saddest and plainest diagnosis I have heard came from a brainy, sober man of 42 who has fought Fascism all his life-Waldemar von Knoeringen, head of Bavaria's Socialist Party...