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...Archipenko. Armitage and Arp) to Z (for Zadkine, Zajac and Zorach), the exhibition provides a splendid survey of modern sculpture, all the more refreshing because Hirshhorn collected it with no pretensions and no esthetic doubletalk, but simply out of his own compulsive love. When asked why he bought Epstein's Visitation, he explains: "It was a serene, beautiful piece which excited me." Of Käthe Kollwitz' Pietà, he says: "I thought it very powerful." It is-as Hirshhorn himself might have added about his whole approach to art-as simple as that...
...Some of My Best Friends. . ." (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $4.50) is the title of a just-published study of U.S. antiSemitism, by Benjamin R. Epstein and Arnold Forster, national director and general counsel of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (founded in 1913 to combat antiminority prejudice...
...Convenient to Churches." Epstein and Forster report, among other things, on a survey of clubs made by the A.D.L. in 1961. Out of 1,152 clubs in 46 states, plus the District of Columbia (total membership: 700,000), 555 clubs barred Jews completely, and 136 limited Jewish membership to small numbers. Of the country clubs, 72% practiced discrimination, compared with only 60% of the city clubs. And discrimination, of course, produces counter-discrimination; in the sample, there were 90 "Jewish clubs," 85 of which excluded Christians...
...Epstein and Forster concede that the right of a club to discriminate in its membership is as fundamental as the right of the individual to pick and choose the people he invites to lunch. But they note that when discrimination is applied to a group, independently of the personal merits or demerits of individuals, a club may be the center of an infection that spreads through society as a whole...
...Must Play Saxophone." Authors Epstein and Forster find the greatest progress against anti-Semitism during the last 25 years has been in the area of industry, although many job orders to employment agencies still carry codes, such as "All American," "G" (for white gentile), or "Nordic." Sometimes the codes are farther out; one Manhattan agency uses the incomprehensible phrase "Recommended by Redbook" to indicate that no Negroes are wanted and "Must play saxophone" to exclude Jews. But such discrimination has declined sharply since the late...