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Mask & Marsh. Although Tut's burial effects have traveled before (34 objects toured the U.S. in 1961-62), their Parisian trip was arranged with unprecedented showmanship by that esthetic Barnum. Culture Minister André Malraux. After first viewing a roomful of statuary entitled "The Theban Cradle of the Child King," the visitor accompanies the boy on his twilight journey from death and burial to resurrection and fusion with Osiris, god of the dead. In a dimly lit Salle Royale hung with blue velvet, glows the gold funeral chair, with its big-horned sacred cows for armrests, that was made...
...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...