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...moved back to Switzerland for refuge without fuss or rancor. Politics did not interest him, and his life-style scarcely changed. With his tabby cats, his violin, and his watercolors hung out to dry like dish towels on a clothesline in his studio, Klee had always seemed like the Caspar Milquetoast of the avantgarde. From boyhood, he had managed to ignore or bypass every emotional crisis that might have distracted him from his art. He shrugged off the end of one love affair with Teutonic priggishness. "Since only a few weak poems in the popular vein remained of that adventure...
...conquest and instability. The dark woods and branching Gothic vegetation that Dürer and SchÖngauer had engraved came back to haunt living artists; the full force of literary romanticism, with its themes of love, death, exile and transcendence, played over them. The caped solitary figures in Caspar David Friedrich's paintings, staring mutely at the horizon with backs turned, are like footnotes to Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther...
...burst of activity began in January, soon after Caspar Weinberger succeeded Paul Rand Dixon as chairman. Weinberger revitalized the staff by getting rid of some mediocrities, and switched the commission's emphasis away from shielding businessmen against unfair competition to protecting consumers against deception...
...together with a new Domestic Affairs Council, had been announced in March. Now Nixon's choice of Shultz to head the OMB, together with his transfer of Finch, makes the organizational changes more important than they appeared to be at first. The other personnel shifts: CASPAR WEINBERGER, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission and former state finance director of California, joins the OMB as Shultz's deputy. JOHN EHRLICHMAN, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs, becomes executive director of the Domestic Affairs Council...
...black schoolgirl in Philip Evergood's painting There'll Be a Change in the Weather stands as straight as Caspar the King. She is wearing sneakers just like the other kids, so white, and a pretty school frock. But she is mocked. The children who should be her friends stick out their tongues. The beauty of the painting hurts. One al most expects the mothering earth to open and receive the girl, to save her from the hell of that schoolyard...