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Magpie-like, the surrealist imagination was apt to claim whatever it wanted from history, and the London exhibition records this in a number of showcases whose contents punctuate the august and predictable flow of Mirds, Dalis, Ernsts...
...space between the shadowed head of Rembrandt's pregnant wife and the sewing hands of her nurse, a domestic silence so intense that one can almost hear the tick of cooling embers in the grate. Once again the Morgan Library, eschewing the theatrics with which other museums are apt to present their loan shows, has come up with an exhibition of instructively high quality...
...taking on some subtlety and civility. Men are sending women flowers in greater numbers, the florists say, than at any time in the past decade and are regaining some of the manners that they felt superfluous when faced with militant wives or sweethearts. Women today are less apt to dress like sodbusters on a holiday, and frilly dresses, flouncy skirts, ruffled underskirts, lace, gauze blouses-all as feminine as possible-have returned to everyday fashion. Advertisements heralding coming spring fashions ooze lyricism, and sentimental trinkets and totems are booming. "Everyone is into hearts," says a Chicago shopkeeper, "the same...
...LANGER '15, Coolidge Professor of History Emeritus, died last month, on the eve of the publication of his autobiography, entitled In and Out of the Ivory Tower. In the book Langer writes of his long life of teaching and government service, and the book's title is an apt description of that life...
Furniture is the luggage of living. While beds, chairs, tables and lamps are as essential to civilized society as books or bread, they are expensive, clumsy to carry, costly to move, often drearily designed and woefully apt to disintegrate. The solution? Make your...