Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wall; that is how Japanese collectors are used to packing their scrolls. "Lloyd-san," purrs his Tokyo partner Torii, "almost seems to understand Zen." Marlborough prints the most elaborate color catalogues in the business for its shows, and accompanies a major exhibition-David Smith, say, or Francis Bacon-with a campaign of discreet lobbying with collectors. It is indicative of Marlborough's reputation for secrecy-and for giving cash on the barrel-that when New York's Metropolitan Museum wanted to raise some quick funds last year by selling its Rousseau Tropics and its Van Gogh Olive Pickers...
Marlborough now represents 66 living artists, a few of them giants-including Bacon, Henry Moore and Clyfford Still. The majority, however, are middle-of-the-road figures like Fernando Botero, Michael Steiner or Richard Diebenkorn. Marlborough also manages the estates of David Smith, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Ad Reinhardt...
...graduate's birthday passed without a card signed, "Aff., F.D.A." Each Sunday he invited some students to his house for scrambled eggs, sausage and bacon. Before every Christmas vacation, he sat in front of a blazing fire in his book-lined study reading Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to the new boys at his feet. Twice a week he held forth on the Bible and Greek philosophy at the headmaster's class, which was attended by juniors and seniors. He also preached at chapel, which is required five nights a week, as well as on Sunday...
...higher level of speculation political philosopher Leo Strauss has laid the groundwork for this re-examination of current fashionable dogmas by re-examining, in the most meticulous and scholarly fashion, the entire tradition of modern philosophy that started with Bacon and Hobbes. Strauss's work has encouraged the reconsideration of the prevailing positivist philosophy which locates the noetic center of gravity in the natural sciences and mathematics and which is therefore "value free," independent of ethics. Such a political science, says Strauss, by refusing to make value judgments and distinguish between "great statesmen, mediocrities, and insane impostors" may be good...
...honors to the senators and Judge Sirica for following through on the case. My only disappointment is that a dirty little political crime should rock the White House more than years of death, destruction, and horror in an infamous, unconstitutional, and frighteningly costly war abroad Ernst Bacon...