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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Numerous colored slides illustrated Messer's point: the object of art is to say things never said before. During his comparison of Boucher's sensuous "Venus" with De Kooning's grotesque figure of "Woman," Messer commented that modern art attempts to tell the truth even if the subject is not pretty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Images in Modern Art Discussed by Messer In Thursday Lecture | 7/28/1960 | See Source »

...plank, in fact, when it is not hoping for a glorious future and deploring the recognition of Red China, is celebrating the end of the Korean War and other accomplishments of the Eisenhower Administration. The Democratic plank also is riddled with irritating platitudes, but is a doctoral dissertion by comparison...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Pachyderm Platform | 7/28/1960 | See Source »

...Republican Convention in Chicago next week will doubtless seem quiet, plodding and highly predictable in comparison with last week's Democratic show in Los Angeles. But lurking beneath the calm will be a worrisome awareness that the G.O.P.'s ticket will have to face tough and formidable Democratic opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The Coming Battle | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

...Party platforms have traditionally been ramshackle structures-ill-assorted odds and ends of lumber loosely nailed together by cautious, compromise-minded committees. By comparison, the 1960 Democratic platform, grandly entitled "The Rights of Man," is a well-made document: straightforward, clear, brief and-as platforms go-probably the most coherent blueprint for Utopia ever to come out of a convention. As such, it reflected not only the promises of the candidate but the leanings of its principal architect: Platform Committee Chairman Chester Bowles, 59, Congressman from Connecticut, prospeous ex-adman (Benton & Bowles), Harry Truman's best-known Ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PLATFORM: Rights of Man--1960 Style | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

...Last week Soprano Sutherland, 33, was appearing at Britain's stylish Glyndebourne Festival in Bellini's I Puritani. On the lawn at intermission, as they were consuming their hamper-packed chicken-in-aspic suppers, members of the black-tied audience buzzed that Joan could already stand comparison with the incomparable Maria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bel Canto Booster | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

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