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Examining the brave new worlds dreamed up by Utopians from Plato to H. G. Wells, astringent British Author Aldous Huxley, 67, concluded that, "luckily for humanity," not one of them "could ever be fully actualized." Even the best-intentioned of the lot, said Huxley to the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters in Manhattan, would have created societies "as horribly inhuman as Orwell's 1984" or his own Brave New World. More's Utopia, said he, is "paternalistic state socialism administered like an old-fashioned boarding school"; Plato advocated childhood conditioning, censorship and "compulsory...
THURSDAY: The market opens strong, and there is brave talk of rally in the air. In the first hour of trading, the Dow-Jones recaptures 5.16. But then the sellers take over. At the close, 442 stocks are at new lows for the year. The Dow-Jones...
...action painters. Landau's Cinna was inspired partly by the Orson Welles production of Julius Caesar and partly by the brutality of Naziism in World War II. While many of the new figurative painters tend to use the figure as just another object or form, Landau is brave enough to admit to being concerned with "the condition of man." Ben Kamihira (overleaf), Joseph Hirsch and Ralph Borge (last page) do not use distortion to achieve a sense of drama; their paintings rely more on a subtle or unexpected arrangement of the figures and objects. Hirsch's Coronation...
Despite Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's brave declaration in Toronto this month that the Common Market would have to "make it easy'' for Britain to join, European leaders showed that they are in no mood for concessions. On the contrary, Konrad Adenauer warned that Britain has "interests different from those of Europe" and may not be able to pay the price of membership. Whether der Alte was threatening to block British admission, which he denied, or whether he was not too subtly raising the ante, his attitude was shared by many other Europeans, notably Charles de Gaulle...
When tearful Jack Paar bade his brave farewell to television's biggest late-nighttime audience, the silence that followed seemed merciful. The tantrums, the shaded vulgarity, the curious, hostile tension of his nightly soiree had come to an end. It has taken almost two months without Paar to illustrate how forceful each ingredient was. to sketch the enormity of the hole he left behind. Filling in until Johnny Carson takes over the Tonight show next fall, some of television's tinniest princes have presided over the show, and each has left the unmistakable mark of his inability...