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...welcome. The queues of costumed party guests, who had been carefully screened by attendants assigned to bar gatecrashers, filed in. Biarritz' Chiberta Country Club was in ornate fancy dress for the occasion, made up in false front by New York decorator Valerian Rybar to look like an iSth century chateau. The 2,000-odd guests, including some 50 princes, 20 dukes, 95 counts, 35 marquesses and one sad and shopworn King (Peter of Yugoslavia), were all supposed to dress in the same (circa 1750) style, but many seemed as vague about their century as they did about their host...
They could all find something worth looking at: there were seven special exhibits going at once. On the ground floor were a folk costume show and a comprehensive display of "The Weird"-no etchings, drawings and lithographs from the gruesome isth century genii of Albrecht Diirer to the willowy 20th century witches of Charles Addams ("May I borrow a cup of cyanide?"). Upstairs were other shows: the Metropolitan's 30 famed Rembrandts, a collection of miniature objects, earliest American landscapes, contemporary American watercolors, drawings and prints...
...week, to the mingled horror, delight and bemusement of a capacity (2,500) crowd in U.C.L.A.'s Royce Hall, Stravinsky conducted the Los Angeles Chamber Symphony Orchestra in the world première of his newest work-a Cantata based on the Flemish and Burgundian styles of the isth and 16th centuries. The lyrics of its four parts were taken from English folk songs of the same period...
Aquinas' House. Around the Protestant principle Tillich has constructed one of the most impressive Protestant theological systems since the time of the reformers. Critics compare him with St. Thomas Aquinas, who in the isth century integrated Catholic thought so that theology, philosophy and art are coordinated in one impressive system. Like Aquinas, Tillich has been weaving his religious thought into a broad pattern, but his is looser and more adjustable. As he explains it, "Catholicism deals with these things from the point of view of having the entire truth and the perfect form of life. Protestantism is always learning...
...shop to what labor called a "modified union shop" -and is, more accurately, a "revolving door" union shop. Under the new contract, all new employees must join the steelworkers' union, but if they don't like it, they can swing out the union door again between their isth and 30th day on the job. All steelworkers have the option of turning in their union cards during a 15-day period at the expiration of the contract in 1954. The union cannot touch old non-union employees...