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...that question, Poet Wystan Hugh Auden is going to give up his $35a-week apartment in Manhattan's East Village for a $9-a-week "grace and favor" cottage at Oxford, England. A New Yorker since 1939 and a U.S. citizen since 1946, Auden is anxious "to dispel any feeling that I am disgruntled with America or aggravated by life in New York. If I were 40, or even 50, I would stay here. But I shall be 65 on Feb. 21, and my decision is based on common sense. Suppose I were taken ill, had a coronary. Here...
Despite the poor results of the recent bombing, U.S. military officials insisted that the enemy was capable only of "cheap victories" in unimportant territory. Perhaps so, but the renewal of the ground war should dispel the notion, widespread in the U.S., that the fighting is over, at least for the American G.I. Technically, U.S. troops are indeed in a "defensive" posture, as the Administration calls it, because their main job is to protect American facilities. But for a good number of the 139,000 G.I.s still in Viet Nam, that job means endless patrols out in the boondocks under conditions...
...Mondrian survived triumphantly, though at some cost. The characteristics of industrial reproduction-flatness, harshness, gloss and repetition-became wrongly linked to his work. The idea that Mondrian was a kind of machine painter, all sensuousness barred, is one of the many illusions that the Guggenheim's exhibition will dispel...
...That's the first thing they'll put in my obituary-a woman hater. I certainly was a damned odd one." In fact, Wylie was an early supporter of women's rights. But his description of Mom as "a puerile, rusting, raging creature" did little to dispel the notion that he was indeed a confirmed misogynist. Few facets of society escaped Wylie's wrath over the 50-year span of his literary career. The Princeton-educated iconoclast was a prolific writer of overstated and splenetic books and magazine articles in which he inveighed against everything from...
Vigier wrote. "I have no objections to the hearings being open as I share (the) belief that a fair reporting of the issues we have brought before the committee of the Corporation would do much to dispel the malaise which has, in part, resulted from secretive actions...