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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President, in public at least, maintained a stoic silence. Unlike Winston Churchill, who so hated his 80th birthday portrait by Graham Sutherland that he kept the original hidden until his death, Johnson cannot conceal the "ugliest thing" he ever saw. Hurd is putting the painting on public display this week in the Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, and-thanks to its recent publicity-it eventually will be seen across the country. Meanwhile, the current wisecrack in Washington is that artists should be seen around the White House-but not Hurd...
Howard Nemerov's "Two Academic Poems" display great humor and great wit, respectively, though I do not think they would suffer from being printed as prose...
Alien Atmosphere. The three-ton Venice Landscape,* currently on display at Manhattan's Whitney Museum, locates three 7-ft.-tall bronze monsters on a mechanistic version of a Giacometti plain sown with half-spheres, cylinders, 16 round holes and 16 matching pegs-a symbolic landscape, to Trova, of "the world today with its IBM machines." Decorating his figures are gizmos from his large assortment of "found objects," which he picks up in the antique shops around St. Louis' Gaslight Square. A brace of oxygen tanks perches on the shoulders of the center figure, while a shower nozzle, stainless...
...shirt, Party Secretary-General Waldeck Rochet told a crowded news conference that the Communists had just signed an agreement to collaborate with two major non-Communist parties-the Socialists and Radicals -and a group of small but highly influential leftist "political clubs." Seated quietly beside Rochet, in a grand display of their new-found unity, were Socialist Party Secretary-General Guy Mollet and François Mitterrand, president of the powerful Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left...
...Foreign Minister Willy Brandt arrived in Paris for the NATO talks, he came as the representative of a thrusting, questioning government. De Gaulle received Brandt for an hour's chat, praised the Chancellor's address, invited Kiesinger to come to Paris next month. In an unusual display of geniality, De Gaulle authorized Brandt to tell the press that the meeting had been "très cordial...