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...besides, Picasso has all the loot. He should disperse his money to struggling young artists. Give his all for art. Museums are dead. And they are closed most of the time. They waste their "dough" on restorations. Why should anything be restored? The artist is helpless - "a Gothic man in the Atomic Age." The art academy is an evil institution. Boston is a terrible place, full of academic critics...
Silence Will Speak. Wescott describes the late Baroness Blixen-Finecke, better known as Isak Dinesen (Out of Africa, Seven Gothic Tales), as she seemed when she visited New York four years ago- already at death's door, already moth-frail like "a fever-wasted child; but her eyes as lively as the diamonds in her ears. She really did no more than haunt the dinner table." No writer could ask for a better epitaph than Wescott's use of a line from one of her own characters: "Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal...
...conversely, we feel uneasy about Germany, a bundle of powerful yet hazy instincts, born artists without any taste, technicians who remain feudal, with restaurants which are temples, Gothic palaces for lavatories, oppressors who want to be loved, separatists who are slavishly obedient, carpet knights who make themselves sick when they have had too much beer...
...from the Sorbonne, got advice from such experts as Frank Bowles, president of the College Entrance Examination Board. With himself as dean, he rounded up such trustees as Director Ian F. Eraser of the American Library in Paris. For a campus, the American Church in Paris contributed its neo-Gothic Activities Building on the Seine-side Quai d'Orsay...
Died. Baroness Blixen Finecke, 77, author, under the nom de plume Isak Dinesen, of gracefully ghostly short stories (Seven Gothic Tales) and a popular volume of memoirs called Out of Africa; in Rungstedlund, Denmark...