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...best plays at Louisville's Humana Festival radiate promise...
...weekend of March, some 400 professionals-actors and agents, playwrights and directors, critics from every major U.S. publication and from a dozen foreign countries-convene in Louisville in hopes of seeing early productions of significant American dramas. The optimism is often justified. Since its inception six years ago, the Humana Festival of New American Plays has introduced, among other works, The Gin Game, Getting Out, Crimes of the Heart, Agnes of God and Lone Star, all of which have gone on to win a place in the repertoire and two of which have won Pulitzer Prizes. For his efforts, Producing...
...exhibition comes to us with the vox humana stop full out. Its aim, the catalogue tells us, is to reflect the present Pope's will "to foster man's spiritual growth and aspirations to artistic greatness ... to give our visitors joy in the appreciation of the creative spirit in man's nature that transcends his worldly ambitions." The bottom line of this fund-raising show is a little more concrete: the Met had to give the Vatican $580,000 for restoration work and 10% of catalogue sales, plus a cut on the replicas and souvenirs; the museum...
Graves has since won other important commissions, notably a 27-story corporate headquarters in downtown Louisville, Ky., for Humana Inc., and an addition to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, designed by Bauhaus Architect Marcel Breuer. Yet it remains to be seen whether Graves' heavy-handed Pop surrealism-"a dash of deco and a whiff of Ledoux," as leading Postmodernist Architect Robert Venturi calls it-will influence workaday architecture. New inspirations are needed, but they should be inspirations that are real, joyful and charming...
David Jones, chairman of Humana Inc., complains that Chrysler's previous management made bad decisions, "and now they expect somebody else to pick up the bill." Pertec Computer Chairman Ryal Poppa warns, "Soon the Government will be asking us why we complain when they want to regulate our businesses if we're so willing to accept their help when we are in trouble." Economist Alan Greenspan finds a Government bailout wrong on principle, wrong because it would be granted not to any troubled company but only to a large one, and wrong because it would not protect jobs...