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...exhibition traces for the first time Yeats' development from his precise and detailed drawings of the 1890s to the fluid textures of his later romantic watercolors. Living apart from the world's art centers, Yeats was untouched by the overpowering movements of his time, developed a lyricism entirely his own. The world's most stirring sights, he once said, are a man plowing and a ship at sea. In the most prosaic of daily happenings, he found life's heroics; his eye was piercing, his heart all-enveloping. "The roots of true art," he said...
...Orient, has been an advocate of U.S. recognition of Communist China and a critic of American "overemphasis" on military power in Asia. In 1956 Widower (three children) Reischauer married Jaoanese Newswoman Haru Matsukata. granddaughter of Prince Masayoshi Matsukata, who was twice Japan's Prime Minister in the 1890s and one of the builders of modern Japan. Writing in Foreign Affairs, Reischauer was sharply critical of "the shocking misestimate of the situation" by his predecessor, Douglas MacArthur II (who will head the Belgian embassy in his next post), during the riots that brought cancellation of President Eisenhower's visit...
Some of Rayburn's predecessors as Speaker, notably Maine Republican Thomas Reed in the 1890s and Illinois Republican Joseph Cannon in the 1900s, were autocrats who ruled over the House like absolute monarchs. Sam Rayburn, though he exudes an authority that some times makes junior Congressmen quail when he speaks gruffly, has operated in the style of Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser, trying to get his way through persuasion and leadership. He has been called "the greatest compromiser since the Great Compromiser." To all new Democratic Congressmen he recites two rules: 1) "To get along, go along...
Exactly how or where it started no one quite knows, but once it got going in the 1890s, it proved as catching as a virus. From Vienna to Chicago, new buildings shot up all curves and curlicues as though seen in a Coney Island mirror. Stairways were twisted into elaborate swirls; paintings and statues became studies in swoops. Today, the style known as Art Nouvemt seems about as "new" as Grandmother's antimacassar. But as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art set out to prove last week, in the most comprehensive and ingeniously mounted U.S. exhibit...
...first exchange was founded in Hong Kong as an all-British club in the 1890s. Later another exchange was organized, and gradually Chinese gained admittance to both. After World War II the two exchanges were merged into the present 60-seat establishment, which is dominated by the 45 Chinese members and guided by Chairman Noel Croucher, a 69-year-old Briton who has been active in Hong Kong trading since 1913. Despite the fact that Hong Kong is a cutthroat market, Croucher contends that it is a safe place for money, if all the risks of stock speculation are taken...