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Last week Vermeer needed no intro duction. Commemorating the centenary of the publication of Thoré-Bürger's monograph-still the source work on the artist-as well as the 150th jubilee of the Mauritshuis, The Hague has staged an exhibition titled "In the Light of Vermeer" (scheduled to open...
...general growth goals set by the state and controlled prices in some key sectors, each Czech factory will have wide freedom for its own development. East Germany, too, has relegated planning to groups of enterprises, freed the prices of some raw materials, is toying with profit incentives. Hungary has intro duced a form of profit sharing, and in a deviation from Marxist ideology unique in the bloc, has imposed an interest rate of 5% on capital. To push exports, Poland has permitted three firms to set up their own foreign-trade pipelines, bypassing Warsaw to deal directly abroad. Yugoslavia long...
...Love pounded out in Dixieland style by a sextet of Britons is enough to make purists quail. But the result is surprisingly lively, with a mean banjo taking the balalaika part. Even more surprising is Londonderry Air in shuffle rhythm, and Isle of Capri with a honky-tonk piano intro. Best of all is Alabama Jubilee, a traditional Dixie item done up brown as a hoecake...
...story, first published in 1874, is dressed up with charming illustrations by William Pène du Bois and an intro duction in the form of a biography of Verne by Scientist Willy Ley. But there is perhaps one Oxphyxiated refugee from Quiquendone who now works for Macmillan. He is the fellow who de cided to print the book so that it must be held 90° around from the normal, so that pages must be turned from top to bottom instead of right to left. But this should not deter true lovers of the Vernacular...
...HAVE said that Baldwin is intro-respective. He is also extremely self-conscious, and the combination produce in him a state of near hyper-sensitivity, toward both himself and others. This could be a crippling handicap; and even with Baldwin sensitivity does have drawbacks. One of these is a near-obsession with certain aspects of being a Negro. Probably the most evident is sex: the question of Negro sexuality arises again and again, each time in a new context...