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Moscow did not stop at that. Abruptly, the Russians announced that they were abolishing the office of Soviet commandant in Berlin; from now on, they suggested, their affairs in East Berlin would be taken care of by General Ivan Yaku-bovsky, Russian commandant in East Ger many itself. This, declared the Soviet Defense Ministry, was part of its "policy of eliminating in Europe the vestiges of the Second World War." Again, Berlin was in the banner headlines of the world press, for by this maneuver Russia was raising once again its thesis that four-power control of Berlin* is ended...
During his first worship service at Broad way Presbyterian, he introduced his Ger man shepherd dog to the congregation from the pulpit - a gesture that delighted children in attendance, but to Merriam's enemies seemed evidence of emotional immaturity. More seriously, they accuse him of lack of judgment. The principal evidence: an incident of last August, when Merriam, on behalf of a self-exiled Iranian scholar, telephoned a State Department official, surreptitiously tape-recorded the conversation, then played the recording -which included some off-the-cuff remarks by the official about Iran's corruption - to a reporter...
...Space. In Divers, Léger wanted to show the human body "revolving in space without any point of contact with the ground.'' After innumerable studies of figures, single or in pairs, and a few studies of abstract shapes, entwined like dancers, he produced a climactic picture (see color). It is a jigsaw of figures tumbling, hurtling, plummeting, yet all interlocked. As the eye examines them, they seem to begin to whirl, as if Léger had painted them on a pinwheel...
...fell under the spell of Cezanne, later said that it took him all of three years to shake it. Some of his early canvases look vaguely like the work of Braque or Gris, but Léger was never to be a cubist. What interested him was not dissection but construction; while the cubists shattered the surface of reality and the surrealists explored the world of dreams, Léger clung to the familiar objects and figures all about him, using them like brightly colored blocks to build his compositions...
...ger saw his fill of suffering in World War I, but the image he carried away with him was the dazzling light of a breechblock gleaming in the sun. When he visited the U.S. some years later, he found beauty not in the lofty mountains or endless plains but in the hectic pace of the cities and their neon gaudiness. He painted the human figure, but said that for him "the human figure has no more importance than keys or bicycles. These are for me objects of plastic value to be used as I wished." He could consciously ignore...