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...Busch-Reisinger continues its show on the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler for a few days more. Hodler, although respected widely in Switzerland and Germany during his lifetime has been little appreciated here, and on previous stops in New York and Berkeley the show gained attention for Holder as a major new point of perspective in viewing early modernist art. The sketches are the most interesting thing in the show, and most of the larger works appear stiff and stilted by comparison. The landscapes are significant for prefiguring German Expressionist works...
Died. Colonel Alois Podhajsky, 75, director of Vienna's Spanish Riding School (1939-65); of a stroke; in Vienna. Podhajsky was a retired Austrian Army officer and the holder of an Olympic equestrian medal when he became chief of the academy of classical horsemanship in 1939. The star attractions of his performing troupe were 80 magnificent white stallions whose lineage traced back to Spain and Arabia and whose world-famous, high-stepping, dancelike routines dated back to the 16th century. Fearing their capture by the advancing Russians in 1945, Podhajsky asked for help from fellow Horseman George Patton...
...that what the region needed most was the broadened economic base (new jobs, new tax revenues and higher land prices) that rapid development promises. At public hearings in January, the residents expressed their opposition. "You are going to preserve the Adirondacks' extreme poverty," charged David Fox, a property holder in Warren County. Added James Dudley, a landowner in Fort Kent: "The agency is an autocracy; it is not the American...
Arguments about the University's proper role in the controversy have centered on Harvard's responsibilities to its benefactors rather than the social obligations of the University as a property holder. There has been a fundamental lack of knowledge about the nature of Harvard's property, unparalleled in previous University disputes over major corporations. It is time to remedy this lack of knowledge and for Harvard to take decisive action...
...before Christmas, so his mother named him Noël. That festive holiday spirit swirled around Noël Coward and his works throughout his life. His plays, musicals, and revues were marvelous parties. To the tinkle of cocktail glasses, he arched the languid magic wand of his cigarette holder and summoned up clever, dashing men and svelte, seductive women who danced divinely, sang bittersweetly and tottered into the tinseled dawn. None of it was remotely real, but it was often great fun, and that suited Coward perfectly to the very day the party ended last week when...