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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dubuffet's position is odd. The products of a foe of "orthodox" beauty, his tarry clumps of mud and orange peel, highly insured, decorate half the bon bourgeois salons of Paris. The author of many eloquent tracts, he speaks in defense of incoherence and illiteracy as poetic principles. An intellectual, Cartesian to the fingertips and a close friend of such literary eminences as Raymond Queneau, Jean Paulhan and FranÇois Ponge, he has based 30 years of work on the premise that Western culture is a grotesque irrelevancy. Dubuffet is indeed a quintessentially French figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dubuffet: Realism As Absurdity | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...Catholic foe of Communist China was incensed by the Fides article. Said Right-Wing Jesuit Journalist Daniel Lyons: "Mao's ideas are no more Christian than Hitler's were. Hitler also fed the poor-when it served his purpose. We have the right to expect Vatican spokesmen to speak out like Christ against the Pharisees and not to try to create dialogue with them by compromising Christian teachings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Turning the Other Cheek | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...working capital to allay fears of the school's worried trustees. Under his stewardship, the encyclopedia's sales zoomed during the next two decades from $3,000,000 to $125 million, netting the university $25 million in royalties. Benton was a staunch liberal and a bitter foe of Joe McCarthy in his Senate days (1949-53). An early UNESCO supporter, he ultimately served the organization as Lyndon Johnson's ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 2, 1973 | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...intercession was made at this point by Presidential Counsel Dean. He asked the advice of Gray's No. 2 man at the FBI, veteran Agent W. Mark Felt. A longtime foe of Sullivan, Felt said that Sullivan's appointment would throw the bureau into chaos. Dean accepted that judgment at face value, strongly advised the selection of Gray ?and Nixon nominated Gray on Feb. 17. Thus Gray became

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Fight Over the Future of the FBI | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

...Secret. The American G.I., said Tra, had been a worthy foe. "His equipment was better than anything we had. And there is no doubt that he was a good fighter and courageous. But an army has to have an ideal to fight for. It can't defeat an army that has a cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: A Trail Becomes a Turnpike | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

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