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...collection, it must be prepared to pay in the millions for it, and prices are driven up by museums outbidding one another in an ego race. This ignores a fundamental question: Who, exactly, does need the masterpiece-and why? A few years ago, the late art historian Erwin Panofsky spoke approvingly of "the unselfish rapacity of the museum director." As time passes, and as the use and function of museums come under more rigorous examination, it is arguable that the rapacity that impelled Thomas Hoving to expend more than $5.5 million on the Met's new Velasquez...
...opposing attorneys prepared papers for their historic confrontation before the nine robed Justices. All 300 seats in the chamber were full and newsmen stood shoulder to shoulder in the press alcove. At precisely 11 a.m., the red velvet curtains parted, the Justices took their seats, and Solicitor General Erwin N. Griswold, distinguished former dean of Harvard Law School, launched a 53-minute opening argument...
...until the time he was named to succeed Erwin N. Griswold, now Solicitor General of the United States, as Law dean, Bok was a professor of Law and little else. He often resisted the practice of indulging in committee proceedings and he was careful not to overcome himself to extracurricular activities. Bok studied labor law, taught it and wrote about it (with Archibald Cox, he published Cases and Materials on Labor...
...Lutheran youth centers in West Germany. The author of the German edition, Protestant Physician Martin Goldstein, in fact developed the book in response to questions he encountered as a medical adviser to the Lutheran Youth Counseling Center in Düsseldorf. For the U.S. edition, Yale Research Fellow Erwin J. Haeberle has rewritten the text to reflect U.S. sex laws and mores. As in Germany, the book is primarily intended for youthful readers, preferably with adult guidance...
...Director Arnold Drapkin and Picture Researcher Carol Saner. In the case of this week's China spread, they culled 2,160 transparencies, selected about 50 from which TIME'S art directors then chose nine for their final layout. Once a layout is approved, Drapkin or his associate Erwin Edelman takes it from New York to our Chicago printing plant-a mission that is necessary to ensure the accuracy of the engravings...