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...misfortune befalls Robert A. Rosenberg in "Mopey Dick." which attempts a chapter-by-chapter account of Herman Melville's classic. "Athelsm and Alcohol." by David H. Gaylin, is an example of another piece which begins nicely-giving an account of the goings-on inside Ye Olde Joynte and Lushe-Haus-but fizzles out toward...
...with an air of astonishment. The show consisted of 111 naive American paintings from the collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, and by the time it closed, 35,000 Frenchmen had flocked to the Grand Palais to see it. In Berlin, 15,000 poured through the Amerika Haus during a six-week showing, and in London the Sunday Times commented admiringly: "We seem here to be offered the image of a vanished people and a faraway mode of life reflected in an eye as clear and sharp and unobsequious as a bird...
Overwhelming white light was once thought to define the sight of God. The flight to Munich leads to a world of luminous order at the Haus der Kunst: icons from the 13th to the 19th centuries, from Greece, Crete, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria. How can God, whose sight no living man has endured, be representable in a picture? The Orthodox were fundamentalists about that evident problem, but subtle ones: as the impression is to the seal that makes it, as the body to the soul, as the accidental to the essential, they reasoned, so the representation is to the spiritual reality...
...Haus Maternus. Poststr...
...Turtle) have captivated some 33 million buyers of children's books. Hamming it up for the kids, he popped in front of drawings by Henry Moore, brought gales of youthful laughter as he told them the artist's name was either "Heinrich Moorehaus or Schweinhenkel Block-haus, or maybe Schweinehund Block-enkopf." He stared at the misplaced toes a girl had attached to a bongo drum-playing doll, asked: "Is that a three-toed tree toad?" He told others that he was working on "a boomerang that won't return," and has given "slipper-flippers" to adults...