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...mighty and miserable Adam, an 8-ft.-high study in human splendor and spiritual loss. Opposite him, Maillol's Chained Liberty strainingly strode. Scattered about the palatial apartments were figures by Archipenko, Zadkine, Zorach, José de Creeft, Koren Der Harootian, Nathaniel Kaz, Viani, and Reg Butler. The study contained a miniature judges' bench in rosewood, serving as a pedestal for eleven Judges and Advocates by Daumier. In the garden Antoine Bourdelle's huge, agonized bronze Warrior hacked and thrust...
Empty Chairs. Bald and stockily built, with pale, penetrating blue eyes, Iain Norman Macleod, who came to London by way of the Outer Hebrides and the D-day beaches of Normandy, has met and mastered every task set him by the Tory Party. In 1950 Rab Butler, present Home Secretary, wrote to Macleod: "I've found that every time I've given you a harder job, you've done it better." By nature a New Tory, with no inbred love for the huntin', shootin', fishin' types of old-style Conservatives, Macleod has served brilliantly...
...opera's biggest failing is that it never makes clear the source of Lulu's deadly charm, and the audience is unable to sympathize with her or her victims. At several points, e.g., when an elderly butler confesses in an aside that he himself is smitten with Lulu, the spectators usually break into titters. Musically more advanced than Berg's only other opera, Wozzeck (TIME, March 16), Lulu has little of Wozzeck's compelling dramatic power. Remarkably, only 25 years after its premiere, the most experimental opera of one of the century's most experimental...
Without naming vice-President Richard M. Nixon or Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell, Butler said the steel industry agreed to a new contract after it was "warned by certain high-placed men in government it otherwise might face punitive legislation...
...Butler, a member of the Senate-House Economic Committee, said in a statement: "Dizzy with visions of labor votes, the administration interfered with due processes of arbitration and forced a settlement without serious consideration of its ultimate cost and its cumulative assault on our nation's market place...