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...Idol. This spirit of attack charges Mauldin's work. At home, he can ridicule the race issue by drawing two Dixie rednecks armed with baseball bats and speculatively eying a Negro just out of the picture. "Let that one go," says one. "He says he don't wanna be mah equal." He treats the space race between Russia and the U.S. with barbell scorn: a monkey up a tree demands of its space-suited companion back from a quick zip through the firmament, "Where the hell have you been?" Ranging across the world for targets, he aims...
Married. Eartha Kitt, 30, Negro songstress who sounds as though she means it when she sings I Wanna Be Evil; and William McDonald, 30, a white real-estate dealer; in Hollywood...
...field of eleven tentative opponents, Old Earl's chief problem probably will be New Orleans' handsome, hard-working Mayor DeLesseps Morrison (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956), who lost to Long under an avalanche of upcountry votes in 1956. So confident is Earl of winning ("I wanna give that little squirt Della Soups Morrison one more beating") that he is even trying statesmanship. To a crowd gathered for a bridge dedication at Natchitoches he solemnly suggested that the Governor's office be put under civil service. Knowing Earl, remembering Huey, the crowd just laughed...
...wanna be a lion," Gertrude Stein announced to her brother Leo. So she followed him to Cambridge, and, in 1893, registered at the "Harvard Annex." Gertrude Stein has since become legend. Not only did she define the rose, but she influenced such men as Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway...
Genet writes of prison life with an almost unique authenticity, not only as a criminal, but as a philosopher of criminality. Many writers have cried with Eartha Kitt, "I wanna be evil," and written accordingly; but Genet is evil. The Oscar Wilde of Salome, and perhaps the Tennessee Williams of Suddenly Last Summer, appear as if they might have wanted to be Genet when they grew up; compared to him they are only dilettantes of degradation. When they write of the most deep-going taint they can imagine, they are on the outside looking eagerly in, almost with their noses...