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But Kandinsky pressed all this to extremes, and such was the dogmatic rigidity of his character that he managed to live through some of the worst catastrophes of European history without doubting the Theosophical fairy tale for a moment. No doubt he saw the wars and coups and mass murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Preparing for Abstraction | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

By rights, this play, like Antony and Cleopatra, should have a double title-something like Macbeth and Wife or Two on the Heath-for Lady Macbeth is fully as important as her husband. Hamlet can get along with a second-rate Ophelia, but if the actress who plays Lady Macbeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Odd Couple | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

Roosevelt had always been the total politician, immensely gifted in all the arts of power, combining public spirit with guile. Politicians tend to judge themselves by election returns, and the results of 1936 apparently convinced Roosevelt, never an exceptionally modest man, that he could do almost anything. He devised his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: F.D.R.'s Disputed Legacy | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

What gives Keillor's comic voice its amiable singularity in this excellent first collection of sketches and stories is a quality hard to describe without making him seem fatuous and the describer sound balmy. He is in love with the upper Midwest, with the region and the people that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Main Street's Shy Revisionist | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

Gifted artisans, who abound in the land of Disney and tinsel, labored at arcane specialties. Among them: Decorative Painter Frank Baumann, 71, who plied his trade in the lavish 1930s movie theaters, and German-born Karl Mindermann, 51, a silversmith. Baumann took charge of the delicate brushwork while Mindermann worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Cheers for a Born-Again Capitol | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

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