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...André Malraux...
...André Malraux expects too much when he asks for images to deny man's nothingness; that is turning art into religion. But if art need not deny the nothingness of man, it is urgent for man to deny the nothingness...
Died. Victor Andrés Belaúnde, 82, Peruvian Ambassador to the U.N. and uncle of his country's President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, who was among the U.N.'s founding fathers at San Francisco in 1945, played a leading role in breaking the East-West deadlock over admission of 16 new members in 1955, and saw his reward when he was elected president of the General Assembly in 1959; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...ILLUSTRATED HISTORYOFGERMANY by André Maurois. 295 pages. Viking $22.50. From the time of Arminius who destroyed three Roman legions in the dense Teutoburger Wald, to Germany's present-day resurgence, the country has been painted, sculpted anc dissected in words by friend and foe alike. Author Maurois, who has also done illustrated histories of France and England, is guardedly optimistic abou the German future, sees little likelihood of a new Nazism but warns that "Bismarckian nationalism always will remain a possibility...
...domain, but it does nothing to diminish the wizardry with which he exploited the subjects that caught his imagination. "Picasso's life work is the greatest enterprise of destruction and creation of forms of our time, and perhaps of all time," said France's Culture Minister André Malraux...