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...remains poised for rediscovery; and 1984, which marks the 150th anniversary of his birth, is the right year for it. The Hunterian Museum in Glasgow has put 79 of its Whistler oils on view until November. In the U.S. the main Whistlerian event, which opened last month at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C., and will run until December, is a display of paintings, drawings and notes, more than 300 in all, curated by Art Historian David Park Curry and assembled from the Freer's own collection, the world's largest source of Whistler material...
...Freer exhibition is a fascinating show, for its context as well as its contents. Charles Lang Freer, who made his millions in rolling stock in the boom railroad years of the late 19th century, was an impassioned Orientalist, a disciple of the "Boston bonzes," chiefly of Ernest Fenollosa. As Bernard Berenson fanned the ardor of the American rich for the Italian Renaissance, so Fenollosa was busy shaping American taste for Oriental art. He adored Whistler's work, calling him "the nodule, the universalizer, the interpreter of East to West." Freer concurred, and in the 1890s he became Whistler...
...program, to be aired during prime time on a show similar in format to "60 Minutes," will focus on student and House life. Academically "the main thing you realize here is students are much freer to choose what they want. They have much more freedom to study what they want and they have their own opinions," said TVE's chief U.S. news correspondent. Ross M. Calaf...
...wishes of Pope John Paul II, who wants the teachings of the post-Vatican II church expressed clearly and uniformly. A new code of canon law, enacted last November, limits the requirement for an imprimatur to texts used in teaching. Catholic theologians, including those in the clergy, are thus freer to explore differing opinions. But when it comes to books intended to elucidate official Catholic dogma, the Vatican has now sent an unmistakable signal. Such texts must be unequivocally faithful to church doctrine if they are to have the church's formal blessing...
...forces the issue, never will be absolute," says William Quandt, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "Lebanon cannot have a foreign policy that is fundamentally hostile to Syria, or to Israel for that matter. But it can remain independent and have an internal political life far freer than what is found in Syria...