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...arty Sierra Madre, Los Angeles suburb, artists painted models in the streets. In front of Portland, Ore.'s handsome neo-Georgian Museum of Art (its façade draped with red, white and blue bunting) a WPA brass band trumpeted God Bless America, while museum attendance jumped from 75 to 400 daily. Detroit's sedate Institute of Arts put on a price-marked display of Grand Rapids furniture. In Lewisburg, Pa. pastors of all denominations and an esthete named Prof. B. Gummo sermonized and lectured on "What is Art?" In Chicago a streamlined sound truck of abstract design...
...Philippines toward Singapore and the East Indies. Last week the Philippines looked and sounded like anything but a great tension point of the Far East. The defense budget had been sliced in half. Government money was being poured out for beautification. Manila's boulevards were shining with the façades of new public buildings and loud with the riveting of further construction. There was talk of building a resplendent new capitol out in suburban Quezon City. The dining rooms and bars of a huge new jai alai palace were going full blast. So was the new, prophetically named...
...Middle Ages was regarded as the work of the devil. This discord is the augmented fourth (example: C and F sharp on the piano), was called the tritone because it spans three whole tones. The tritone was banned in sacred music, thus giving rise to a maxim: Mi contra fa est diabolus in musica (The tritone is the devil in music). When the sirens, beginning on a sweet major third or fifth, slip up and down into the bloodcurdling tritone, it sounds that way to Londoners...
This week, at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the De Beers collection of modern art was put on public display. The eleven canvases shown had nothing obvious to say about diamonds : most pictured women, one a man with a guitar, one a bunch of flowers, one the façade of a cathedral...
...behind the façade of justice erected by the rulers at Vichy less dignified machinations were in progress last week. It was far from certain that the trials would proceed to an orderly conclusion, far from certain that life imprisonment would be the severest penalty meted out to the ex-leaders of France. In 1871, after France's previous defeat, Frenchmen vented their feelings in violence. In that year the strong-man Government of Louis-Adolphe Thiers was afraid to stay in Paris, where the left-wing Commune soon seized power. The Government and the Commune executed between...