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...Soviets have been gradually rehabilitating the impressionists, despite the Communist dictum that men like Renoir "reflect modern bourgeois realities.'' Last spring, in its show of French moderns, the Hermitage moved further, hung 20 Matisses, 17 Gauguins, 19 Cézannes, 21 Monets and 24 pre-Cubist Picassos. But it will probably be years before the full glory of Soviet modern-art acquisitions is considered safe enough to be seen. Modern art is still suspect. Says cautious Hermitage Director Mikhail Artamonov: "Modern Western art is not uniform. Some new paintings are quite unacceptable for us, though doubtlessly there...
...Kennedy's assignment could be charged off as a 1960 political gambit, it could also be explained by a ruling handed down four years ago when Lyndon Johnson assumed floor leadership. Johnson's dictum: every Democrat should sit on at least one committee of his choice; even first-termers, wherever possible, should have an interesting committee assignment. Estes Kefauver already ranked high on not one but two prime committees, i.e., second Democrat on Judiciary, fourth on Armed Services. On the other hand, Kennedy had served his apprenticeship on the mediocre Labor and Government Operations Committees, was due under...
...bush tent in the rainy season. As for his conclusions, he will not please those with spurs to polish or assagais to grind. Blame, he says, lies on both sides of the color bar. Monsarrat has settled for the honest and general indignation of the 'philosophical dictum that a man born into the world with a sense of smell has a duty to cry "stinking fish...
Nevertheless, the frequent brilliance of its specialists, e.g., U.S. Correspondent Alistair Cooke, and the wide latitude given to staffers under the late, great Editor C. P. Scott's dictum "Comment is free, facts are sacred," help to make the Guardian the British newsman's newspaper...
...Lincolnian dictum of doing for people the things they can't do well themselves, but to avoid interference where people can do things for themselves." The Federal Government should support social security and unemployment insurance, foster health research, overcome emergency schoolroom shortages, keep the dollar sound. Beyond these duties is a barrier: "The partnership policy of which we speak is to give the maximum responsibility into the hands of local and state governments to run their own affairs...