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...André Malraux remains the archetypical questing man, still casting a fiercely brilliant eye on man's fate and mankind's shifting perceptions of art and politics. His latest book, La Tête d'Obsi-dienne, is a bestseller in France, even though it is heavily philosophical. In it, he reflects on art and civilization-Eastern, Western, African, pre-Columbian, prehistoric. TIME Correspondent Paul Ress visited the author in the Paris suburb of Verrières-le-Buisson, where he lives in a villa surrounded by sweeping lawns and old cedars. Ress's report...
Hurok was actively wheeling and dealing when he died last week at 85. He had lunched in midtown Manhattan with one of his most famous artists, Spanish Guitarist Andrés Segovia, then hopped into a car to go to a meeting with Banker David Rockefeller. On the way, a heart attack brought an end to the life of one of the most successful talent promoters in show business...
...Your report that Andrés Segovia has retired and stopped giving concerts is incorrect...
...waited until the boy was three years old before I started teaching him the guitar," Andrés Segovia, 80, said about the lessons he gives Carlos, his son by his second wife Emilia, 36. He is now two months past his third birthday, and Papa thinks "he's going to be very good. We practice one or two hours every day." Segovia, the world's master guitarist, has retired to Spain's Costa del Sol and stopped giving concerts: "How can I stomp the world again when all I want to do is be with...
...People's Republic, on view at the Petit Palais in Paris through the summer. Later it will travel to London and early next year to Toronto. It is the fruit of almost ten years' negotiation between the Chinese and French governments, begun by ex-Culture Minister André Malraux and finished in detail by a group of orientalists headed by Vadime Elisseeff, chief curator of the Musée Cernuschi in Paris. Encyclopedic in scope-the objects on display range from rudimentary quartz and flint scrapers used by Peking Man in 500,000 B.C. to the exquisite porcelains...