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Painter Braque does not like to be asked how he manages to stay young of eye. "There is only one thing in art,that is worthwhile," he says. "It is that which cannot be explained." Outwardly he is the same as ever, an even-tempered, meticulous workman sometimes called "France's first artisan." Though he is a wealthy man (half of his current show is already sold, at prices up to $30,000 a painting), he still rises at 6 each morning, puts in a full day sketching, painting, or just jotting down ideas. His pleasures are simple...
...hints at the poem's obscurity. On the opposite page, naked Jerusalem, symbolizing a sort of spiritual Utopia, chats with veiled Vala, who symbolizes earthbound womanhood. The children point the way upward to glory. At the top of the next page, Jerusalem tries to explain to a flaming workman that the French Revolution was not a happy one. Below stands the central figure of Time, flanked by Man with the sun on his shoulder, and Woman spinning a blood-red thread of mortal life...
...Street, introducing themselves to the store owners, shoppers, cops and kids. In the cities, they headed for newspaper offices and courthouses to shake more hands. In Manchester (pop. 82,732), Kefauver walked through a slaughterhouse, a shoe factory, a brush plant, an insurance office and several mills. Beside each workman he stopped to shake hands and say: "My name is Senator Kefauver, and I'd appreciate your help next Tuesday." Or simply, "I'm certainly glad to meet...
Nelson Dyar, American, was "not at all distinguished in appearance. He did not look like an actor or a statesman or an artist, nor yet like a workman, a businessman or an athlete." Moreover, when the Marquesa de Valverde peered into his palm, she could see "no sign of anything ... an empty hand...
...chauffeur impulsively shot out his hand for a shake, smiled and said he was "pleased to make my acquaintance." Anywhere in class-conscious Europe, the handshake would have been a terrible gaffe for both of them. Another "new American" told Stern how astonished he had been "when an old workman in a factory patted the president of the company on the back, called him by his first name and offered him a cigar." To German-born Stern, these homely incidents, multiplied, are the symbols of a social revolution. They testify that, despite the prattle of the Marxists...