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...first Lovis Corinth did not look as if he would be one of them. He went to study art in Paris when impression ism was already a decade old. Rather than join this movement, Corinth be came a star pupil of the arch-academic Nudesmith William Bouguereau...
...town, in any country). Could the Roman cops-so much more noted for their ballet technique of directing traffic than for their enforcement of law-maintain the zeal that has them handing out more than 5,000 tickets a day? And how long would it be before Roman individual ism rose triumphant to beat the system...
...Nose for Corpses. Khrushchev displayed the same poet-and-peasant touch in dealing with Mao Tse-tung's latest assault on Moscow's "revision ism." The Chinese, said Nikita, turning ever more violent, are "complete idiots" in espousing Stalinism. "There is a tradition to carry a corpse feet first out of the house so that it will not return. We carried Stalin out this way, and nobody will ever bring him back to us." The Chinese may "like the smell of corpses," he continued, but neither Russia nor the Western powers had the nose for it. "When...
...unsettling commentary on the Saigon military regime's security apparatus, since the U.S. stadium is next door to Vietnamese Joint General Staff headquarters. (The government belatedly arrested three Vietnamese living near by as suspects.) The incident was also the latest in a fresh wave of terror ism directed at Americans. Two Saigon bars popular with G.I.s have recently been bombed, killing one U.S. serviceman and six Vietnamese, and last week a terrorist on a motor scooter hurled a grenade that damaged the home of a U.S. Air Force captain...
Sometimes Bad Neighbors. This year the Annual's 145 paintings, one per artist and just enough to crowd the Whitney's walls, seem to prove that, despite the popular idea that one style or ism succeeds another, nothing that ever gets into the vocabulary of art ever gets completely...