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...jeweled Hermitage Museum. Those who have been able to do so in the post-Stalin thaw have come away with confirmation of a long-held belief: the Hermitage is every bit as good as the Communists claim (see color pages for some of its rarely reproduced masterpieces). Sterling Callisen, the Metropolitan Museum's dean of education, who recently spent six goggle-eyed, footsore days roaming the Hermitage's 15-odd acres, says frankly: "It comes close to being tops in the world...
...French impressionists. Sample wholesale lots: 27 Rembrandts (including The Re turn of the Prodigal Son, often called his best work), 40 Rubens, at least a dozen each of Cezanne and Picasso.* The walls are magnificently cluttered. "The emphasis in Russia is not on art as we know it," explains Callisen, "but on culture and the history of culture. So where we would put some things in storage, they hang everything...
...publishing, but wound up teaching at the Riverdale Country School for boys, just outside Manhattan. There, during the long hours of dormitory duty, he taught himself Greek. He also talked philosophy, art and the classics with Fellow Teachers Victor Butterfield, now president of Wesley an University, and Sterling Callisen, now dean of education and museum extension of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The result of all the talking: all three decided to go back to the academic life as students...
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