Word: harlequins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maria Montessori seems happy enough to be away from the rest of the world and its politics ("that harlequin mixture of rags and silk") and wars ("If men can respect cows during famine, as in India, men can stop killing each other"). She is not even thinking of retiring. Said she: "Work is necessary. It can be nothing less than a passion. A person is happy in accomplishment...
...view in a Manhattan gallery, and a Boston gallery displayed the work of 31 Zerbe students and twelve of his admirers. Manhattan critics went overboard for Zerbe's crisp, quiet cityscapes, still life jam-packed with unlikely objects, sombre circus pictures, and portraits in costume such as Aging Harlequin (see cut). According to the New York Times, the show was like "a crescendo roll of drums . . . puissant, clear, resourceful, uncluttered." As technical fireworks, each painting had proper sparkle. Did any of them also "mean anything"? Said Zerbe complacently: "If you are bright you can also enjoy the symbolism...
Outstanding among the present collection of ten paintings are the brilliant and exciting "Harlequin's Carnival," the naive "Birds and Insects," with its cheerful blue background, and the mysterious and suggestive "Composition...
...summary inspection of the campus sent him into the marts of the Hub City in quest of a blue serge suit, a pair of harlequin glasses and a green cloth book-bag. . . . He knew enough not to call President Conant "Rheinhardt". . . . Nevertheless, it was impossible for him to find anyone whom he could call a friend. The one attempt he had made at approaching the man across the hall had been coldly, yet courtesouly, rebuffed with a short "Have we been introduced?" . . . The youth began to despair of ever making the slightest dent in campus affairs or being elected...
...Mexico City Picasso show was gathered by the town's newest art association, Sociedad de Arte Moderno (Modern Art Society). In the Society's rented gallery on the Paseo de la Reforma, all kinds of Picassos were hung-from the posterish Harlequin to the Seated Woman (see cut), an example of Picasso's attempt to capture a figure from several angles simultaneously. Dropped at the last minute was a plan to show a large reproduction of Picasso's famed Guernica mural, a graphically violent protest against Franco's atrocities during the Spanish Civil...