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Flaying Alive. Few of Miss Sarraute's victims have names. They are anonymous critics who pretend they have always been for the new writer, when in fact they panned his first collection of short stories; sycophantic women who have latched onto novelists to be part of the cultural whirl; legions of cultural snobs who fear nothing so much as being accused of having no taste; and a few perplexed commoners who actually try to read the book in question. "You expect to bite into juicy pulp," one confesses shamefacedly (and in secret) to a friend, "and you break your...
Joined Hands. Chou's visit to Tirana was not all politics. His New Year's Eve began at the workers' club of the Stalin textile plant, where Chou and his tubby Foreign Minister Chen Yi joined hands with Hoxha and other Albanian greeters to whirl gaily through local folk dances. Seeking more merriment, the group moved on to an army officers' club, where Chen Yi burbled: "Words fail me in this ocean of friendship!" and later to a party at the headquarters of the Artists and Writers Union. At last, amid shouts of "kan pei!" ("bottoms...
...Spanish Civil War. In 1962, after a month in Spain, Frasconi made 16 Picasso-like lithographs titled Oda a Lorca, in which the poet is depicted as a matador, Franco as a hairy-legged bull with tin horns, and Spain as a land of graves over which praying figures whirl by on the backs of monsters, symbolizing "mysticism and dogma in a wild, hysterical...
...walls whirl satisfactorily for a few pages when Atracta, having been fired for nonfeasance of breakfast, goes to law against her former employer and for a wonderful moment seems likely to be granted a large chunk of his estate in judgment. But the whirling begins too late and stops too soon. By this time the reader has begun to suspect that, soberly observed, Irish cuteness can be annoying...
SONIA DELAUNAY-Granville, 929 Madison Ave. at 74th St. Gouaches and oils done by the widow of Painter Robert Delaunay. Brilliant suns whirl across the canvases, lock in geometrical embraces of color. Through...