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...corpse-strewn ruins; scrofulous, consumptive veterans (see cut, opposite page) coughing out pointless lives amid degeneration and squalor. Of all Germany's "degenerate" artists, Nazis numbered him first. In 1932, despite his "Aryan" birth, Satirist Grosz wisely fled to the U.S. He became a citizen, got a Guggenheim Fellowship and a job teaching at Manhattan's Art Students League. And then vitriolic George Grosz astonished his erstwhile admirers : his scratching pen gave way to an affectionate, romantic paintbrush. In lush, vibrant color, curling brush strokes that recalled Van Gogh's, he painted sunclean, little nudes in airy...
...Manhattan, after a getaway from France with the help of Hollywood friends, cheerful Duchamp was comfortably installed in Patroness Peggy Guggenheim's swank apartment. Generalized he: "The artists of Paris are flourishing." He particularized...
Perhaps more famous as a writer than a teacher, Professor Kohn has just completed "World Order in Historical Perspective," and with the help of a Guggenheim fellowship is in the process of writing a monumental four-volume "History of Nationalism." He teaches Government 18 (The Struggle for World Empire) and gives weekly lectures in current events at the Harvard Summer School...
Free music for city people was Goldman's idea when he founded his summer band concerts in 1918, wheedled $300,000 to support them, mainly from rich New Yorkers. Later the Guggenheim family (copper) adopted them as a private benefaction. But their popular success is due mainly to Bandmaster Goldman's devotion to the sound of reeds and brasses...
...private at nearby Camp Croft. Local, too, was the composer, for dark, rugged Ernst Bacon, 43, is dean of the music school at Spartanburg's Converse College, and the guiding spirit of the festivals. A Chicago-born musician who has won a Pulitzer music award and two Guggenheim fellowships, Bacon has composed sensitive songs, witty orchestral works, tuneful light music. Last year the League of Composers commissioned him to compose the second* opera under its Composers' Theater plan for opera suitable for colleges and little theaters, i.e., easily cast and staged. Commission for the libretto went...