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This was a Venice Biennale where the critics booed, the cardinal banned, the Americans beamed, and nearly everyone boozed. Apparently incensed by some rubbishy but relatively innocuous nudes, Giovanni Cardinal Urbani, the Roman Catholic Patriarch of Venice, declared the international art show off limits to all priests and nuns. President...
I'm sorry to get se excited. It just makes me sad to think of all those innocent freshmen spending their sweet-smelling mornings in Humanities 1, discussing and evaluating God is Western Civilization for an four and a half when they are through. Harvard and General Education and do...
Waiters wedged through the crowd trying to serve champagne and French biscuits. Only the sculpture was unmoved by the crush. The outstretched leg of Rodin's Iris was a hazard for every passing guest. Tripped up by Henry Moore's sprawling, 800-lb. King and Queen, a white...
THE UNICORN (311 pp.)-Iris Murdoch-Viking ($5).
In a gesture that seems both apologetic and pompous, Graham Greene has insisted that his light novels (those in which God does not have a speaking part) should be called "entertainments." The tag does not fit all light novels, because it carries the implication that the author can write much...