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...Paris school of painting boasts five aged masters who probably have less in common than the members of any other "school" in art history. They are protean Pablo Picasso, bubbly Henri Matisse, smoldering Georges Rouault, sherbet-cool Georges Braque-and the least famous of the lot, Fernand Léger. The U.S. is getting to know Léger better this year, through a retrospective exhibition of his work arranged by Chicago's Art Institute. Last week, after a six-week stay in Chicago, the 125-item show opened at the San Francisco Museum of Art. Manhattan...
...show makes plain the fact that for a man of his high standing Léger is notably primitive. The most recent oil in the exhibition is a hard, startling arabesque called The Builders (opposite). Painter Léger, 72, who finished the picture in 1950, says that in it he "tried to achieve the most violent contrasts by opposing minutely realistic human figures with clouds and metallic structures." If the workers, perched on their unfinished skyscraper, are far from "minutely realistic," they do look surprisingly human-for Léger. The tough old man, who has spent a lifetime...
Splashed in red letters on the walls of West Germany last week, these words halted many a German in his tracks. The warning: beware of Kopfjäger (headhunters), i.e., recruiting agents of the French Foreign Legion who get a bounty of 30 marks ($7) a head for every man they enlist. According to the opposition German Social Democratic Party, which put up the posters, more than 90,000 young Germans, the equivalent of seven divisions, have enlisted in the legion for service in Indo-China, and 10,000 have lost their lives. "Absurd," answered the French...
Music of Spain (Chamber Orchestra of Madrid conducted by Ataulfo Argenta; Montilla). Overtures from Spanish light operas by such composers as Gerónimo Giménez, Ruperto Chapi, Enrique Granados, Pablo Luna. The music is light and atmospheric, well played and smoothly recorded...
...majority of citizens have big ger actual incomes than ever, despite the depreciated dollar. The average worker can now buy a Ford with only 925 hours of labor v. 998 hours in 1932 - even though the cost of the greatly improved car has risen from $445 to $1,526. He can buy a $10,000 home for 6,024 hours of labor v. 14,320 hours for an equivalent...