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...possible that there are textiles somewhere of a refinement and elaboration to rival the ones now on show at New York's Japan Society. Possible, but unlikely. The exhibition, 145 robes, masks and accessories made for the classical Nō theater by 17th and 18th century Japanese craftsmen, comes from the collection of a family which, next to the Emperor's, was for more than 250 years the most exalted in Japan-the Tokugawa. The shogun, or warlord, leyasu Tokugawa unified Japan at the beginning of the 17th century, welding its scattered feudal clans into a military ruling...
Likewise, the extraordinary 17th century outer robe covered with woven brocade designs of autumnal grasses is intended (so the catalogue notes inform us) to convey the "melancholy, somewhat desolate mood" of "a lonely field at dusk." If this is melancholy, the mood was never more lyrically conveyed. The robe is an anthology of natural observation, with seven types of plants rendered in a marvelously clear, springy line, through gradations of color that result from the separate tinting, part by part, of each of the thousands of silk threads. Where the brown, gray and blue rectangles of the background meet...
...inches of fabric in a week. The planning of the design, with its innumerable shifts of color and texture, must have required a degree of intelligent concentration unequaled in the history of Western weaving. That the robes have survived at all, through the vicissitudes of performance since the 17th century, is a small curatorial miracle; their pristine condition is a larger one. Nothing like them will ever be made again...
...late afternoon Jerry Ford came back strong. He held a "Cabinet meeting," one of the most unusual exercises by a former President yet recorded. Some of the old boys from the Ford team trooped into the board room of the American Enterprise Institute on 17th Street and gathered round the chief just the way they used to do it in the real Cabinet Room. There was a little more laughter this time, but then Ford called them to order and asked them, one at a time, for a thumbnail report on the state of the world in the areas they...
...came from Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The vacation islands now have one representative apiece; under the redistricting plan, they will share a single representative with either upper or lower Cape Cod. Complaining that they will be deprived of an individual representative for the first time since the 17th century, some islanders threatened secession (TIME, March 21, 1977). New Hampshire's archconservative Governor Meldrim Thomson muddied the waters further by promising Nantucketers that he would give them "two or three representatives and maybe a senator" in Concord's legislature; he also pointed out that as undertaxed...