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...personal tributes by many of Wolfson's closest associates, such as Profs. Jakob Rosenberg, Morton White, Austin W. Scott and the late Arthur Darby Nock are deeply touching in their sincerity and warmth, and evoke a vivid picture of Wolfson's Harvard--Widener Library, "Wolfson's table" at the Faculty Club, the Square, and the University (now Harvard Square) Theater. It is at once one of the great things about Harvard and one of the saddest that these everyday sights mean so many different things to so many people. To Wolfson pre-eminently they are a setting for "his work...
Reduced to bare essentials, his books turn out to have hardly any plot at all. Speculations About Jakob, to be published here in March, offers fragmentary views of the life of an East German railroad switchman. The Third Book About Achim tells how and why the third book about Achim could not be written. Crossing to the East, a West German writer named Karsch begins collecting material for a biography on a much-written-about East German bicycle racer named Achim. What interests Karsch in Achim's life, however, does not have enough socialist uplift for the East German...
...Sotheby's sale in 1958 that most dramatically set the level of the recent market. On the block were seven French paintings from the collection of the late Jakob Goldschmidt of New York; the collection's Cezannes, Renoirs and Manets established new highs for these artists (see color, center spread) and served notice on museums and collectors that the scarcity of great works of art had now pushed their value to such heights that collectors had better start buying before things got out of hand...
...extreme nationalism accused Abubakar of the African version of Uncle Tomism. They were distressed by the instinctive anti-Communism that prevents him from joining in the delightful game of giving the "colonialists" the shivers by cozying up to Moscow. (At Nigeria's independence celebrations, when Russia's Jakob Malik cheerily announced that the Soviets planned to open a Lagos embassy immediately, Abubakar bluntly told him: "As a diplomat, you must understand that things are not done that way. You must submit an application for diplomatic relations, and we shall judge it on its merits.") Above all, the extremists...
Slive also collected material on 17th century artists for a forthcoming book, which he plans to publish in collaboration with Jakob Rosenberg, professor of Fine Arts...