Word: belongs
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Even in his lifetime (1720-78), Piranesi printed his copper engravings so frequently that he often had to re-etch them to restore clarity. Now many of the plates-durably steel-coated at a heavy cost in faithfulness-belong to the Italian government, which occasionally runs off a new edition to the profit of the treasury. The prints produced in this "Piranesi industry" sell for around $15 each, but "the result is about as true to the original as a picture postcard would be," says Salamon. The merit of the Turin exhibit is to let viewers see prints from Piranesi...
Fidel Castro demands the return of the Harvard spiders to Cuba. "They belong to the people of Cuba. We have expropriated them in absentia," Castro insists. He appeals to the UN, which regrets that it has no neutral observers left to send him... 146 Young Americans for Freedom depart Cambridge to fight in the Katangan army. "We are not to be confused with the Peace Corps," their leader explains. "We are not going to help Katanga, we're going to fight...
...union. The Dutch did withdraw from some 3,000 islands inhabited by 95 million people, but under the treaty loophole held onto New Guinea, on the ground that the Papuan inhabitants are ethnically, linguistically and religiously different from the Indonesians and (claimed the Dutch) do not really want to belong to Indonesia. The Dutch also held that New Guinea could serve as an asylum for some 200,000 Eurasians of mixed Dutch and Indonesian blood who might not wish to live under Indonesia's new rulers...
...thing for James Johnson Sweeney since he was appointed director last January after angrily resigning from Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. Sweeney stuck to Derain's pre-World War I output, but even with the span thus limited, one fact about Derain comes through. Only seemingly did Derain belong with his contemporaries; essentially he was a traditionalist. In the words of Jean Cassou. curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, he was "the modern artist who refused to be modern...
...with the lopsided grin is no longer welcome at the President's table, but he may continue to accept the crumbs." The Detroit Free Press refused to accept the official line that Bowles had not been downgraded, said flatly that "Bowles was fired because he didn't belong and wouldn't quit"; the Chicago Daily News called him "a congenital chatterbox" and a "moony gabbler." Sneered the Miami Herald: "Perhaps now that Mr. Bowles has been shifted out of the top of the department, the public, too, can learn what our foreign policy...