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...beats drums within the House, he keeps the noise within the House. Discounting the idea that Leverett suffers the fate of a catch-all, he can name four varsity captains from his House this year. He can also point out that three members of his house staff recently won Guggenheim fellowships, saying with a proud smile, "My staff is superb." Actually, his own modesty--which keeps him from talking about aids he personally has given to needy students--seems to have guided house publicity. "We don't blow horns," he says. "May-be that's what we should...
Maass himself holds a Guggenheim study fellowship, but he asserted it would not interfere with either his new duties or his teaching...
...Wellesley, will join the faculty next year. Meiss, an expert on Italian Renaissance art, will serve as a full professor. He expects to teach during the first semester, and will devote the second half-year to museum work. Freedberg will become an associate professor, and will study on a Guggenheim fellowship next year...
ALTHOUGH Paul Cézanne is widely regarded as the father of modern painting, and Manhattan's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is devoted to modern art, the Guggenheim has never owned a Cézanne. When it finally got one, it got one of the best: the Clockmaker (opposite), which will go on view next week along with 34 other recently acquired paintings...
...Clockmaker, which came from a private collection in Heidelberg and has never before been shown in the U.S., was bought by the Guggenheim's trustees on the advice of the museum's new director, James Johnson Sweeney, a knowledgeable critic and an energetic man-about-museums (he has arranged exhibitions in Venice, Paris, London and Sao Paulo, served as Director of Painting and Sculpture for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art). When Sweeney took over the Guggenheim 18 months ago, it was a cultish temple of nonobjective art. Its paintings were mainly second-rate German abstractions which...