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Some of the best-known artists in the U.S. are represented by the 55 prints in the show: Josef Albers, Jasper Johns. Fritz Glarner, Al Blaustein and Ben Shahn are among the 42 printmakers. Many of them started in other mediums, only to find new planes of expression through the tools and inks of printmaking. Leonard Baskin, 42, turned to it around 1949: "I was trying to do in sculpture what was essentially graphic, things too complex in terms of their ideas. I started with wood cuts, then turned to etching and discovered new areas of possibility." He sports...
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Producer Julian Blaustein has translated his tale from World War I to World War II, but too often he retains a dated atmosphere of glamour-by-gaslight. Hero Ford, a playboy from Argentina, falls pampassionately in love with Heroine Thulin, a Parisienne married to a patriotic editor. When the editor joins the Resistance, the hero realizes his duty and secretly does the same. Unaware of his decision, the heroine decides that he is merely a lightweight, and goes back to her husband. At the fade, while the violins soar among the bomb bursts, the poor misunderstood playboy dies heroically...
...Gurion quickly explained that his statement was meant to apply only to practicing Orthodox Jews, who constitute a minority of U.S. Jews. But the damage was done. Off to Israel to pick up the pieces went Ben-Gurion's old friend, the American Jewish Committee's Blaustein. Playing his familiar conciliatory role, Blaustein persuaded Ben-Gurion to reaffirm a joint statement they had issued in 1950. Its key points: Israel may not presume to interfere with the affairs of Jews living outside Israel, and emigration of Jews to Israel is and should be at their "free discretion...
...took up Ben-Gurion's longstanding personal challenge, said he would give up his U.S. citizenship and join Israel's new Liberal Party to fight Ben-Gurion. Israelis figured that he might run for public office in the future. Two Israeli Cabinet members, also disagreeing with the Blaustein-Ben-Gurion declaration, moved to censure Ben-Gurion...