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...Boston-born James Jackson Jarves, America's first real collector of Italian Renaissance art, in 1852. At the time, few Americans agreed with him. When his collection of 143 Pre-Raphaelite paintings was shown in New York in 1860, critics panned them decisively as "weak and fettered," "the crude expression of Genius grappling with superstition." Snorted one Victorian gallerygoer, viewing a Tuscan religious panel with a gold-leaf background: "More of these d-d ridiculous Chinese paintings...
...million. Making this possible is Europoort's strategic location: five industrialized nations, with a total population of 168 million, are within 400 miles. Refined oil is loaded into trucks and rail cars, hauled inland by barge along the Rhine and Meuse rivers or transshipped by vessel. Crude oil can also be sent through a pipeline that cuts cross-country to Frankfurt. Next year a new pipe line to the Ruhr promises to pump 40 million tons annually, which will double the present line's capacity...
Occasionally one can see Adams missing and then discovering the precise size and degree of detail which will exactly convey what he seeks: in "Detail of Meadow Grass, Late Evening" he achieves a delicate, tapestry-like translation of nature; later in "Raindrops on Grass" his enlargement is merely crude, but finally, in the complete abstraction of "Water and Foam," the play of light on form is translated from reality into a perfect work of artifice...
...Arabs against Israel, however in consistent with past French policy, makes a Machiavellian kind of sense because De Gaulle wants to increase French influence among Arab nations disillusioned with Russia and disgusted with the U.S. But it is difficult to see any rational basis for De Gaulle's crude intrusion into the delicate domestic affairs of Canada. When the old man shouted a rabble-rousing French separatist slogan at a Quebec crowd last week, he was merely being a troublemaker-and a clumsy one at that...
...reasons but for fear that his execution might spark resentment, and perhaps even a new Congo revolt that could undermine Mobutu's regime. Such enlightened African leaders as the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny and Leopold Senghor of Senegal are known to oppose any execution as crude blood revenge. And the spectacle of Tshombe's wife, Ruth, and one of her sons, Jean, 23, vainly pleading with the United Nations for a "world habeas cor pus" to save her husband did arouse a measure of international sympathy...