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...intellectuals might some day take up the defense of their insulted country? . . . The world needs America, not so much her money or atomic bombs as the wisdom and courage of her people, the example of her institutions, her jealous regard for the freedom of the individual, and her social equilibrium...
...series of black and white lithographs from 1944 show that Miro was still strongly in the grips of Surrealism. He had accepted the cubists flat picture plans and sacrifice of reality to demands of equilibrium and now worked exploring the possibilities of combining forms, in "jesting grotesque." Never completely satisfied with tightness of silhouettes he sporadically tried his hand at the rough shaky line and nervous application of color. This departure similar to the ramblings of Jackson Pollock show up in some of his etchings done in 1953, which surrender more than usually to spontaneity in design. His oils continue...
From the Summit. In Fra Angelico the man, the monk and the artist were as one. Sharing both in the final, full flowering of the Middle Ages and the first springlike surge of the Renaissance, Fra Angelico stood at a summit during one of those rare moments of equilibrium between epochs...
...Argue With. A better blueprint for a Jewish mission to modern man, Petuchowski suggests, would begin with the meaning of Jewish history. "What is there in the heritage of Judaism that has enabled the Jew to retain his spiritual and emotional equilibrium under the most adverse conditions?" In this, Petuchowski thinks, non-Jews could find much...
Freedom v. Controls. The European consumer has gained most from a sounder currency. Prices have been stable for three years, not because of controls, said Auboin, but because of genuine market forces, aided by active monetary and credit policies designed to maintain over-all equilibrium during a period of expanding production. In short, more abundant supplies kept prices down. Output of farm products was up, and production of industrial raw materials, e.g., oil, coal, etc., has gone up 60% since 1937 (the last normal prewar year). Said Auboin: "Now that supplies are becoming more abundant and inflationary tendencies are being...