Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before Chu Chem opens in New York, months of concentrated rehearsals, out-of-town playing of previews will precede it. The theater, as you have occasionally pointed out, is in a sad state. But what is the state of journalism that forms a judgment before the play is presented? CHERYL CRAWFORD AND MITCH LEIGH...
...convinced that Donald Thorman's pessimistic prognosis of Catholicism's future in America [Sept. 16] needs a qualifying footnote, for it underestimates the experience of insecurity which attends the exercise of private judgment in religion. Emma Lazarus' "huddled masses" are still huddled, and will go right on huddling, whether on a campus or within a ghetto of Cuban refugees. Catholicism knows this, and it presents a power structure that makes it not only difficult to question the divine nature of the Church but dangerous as well. As a Protestant, I have often wanted this assurance. But each...
...takes discretion, judgment, finesse and expertise to run a first-rate art museum, it should take no less of those qualities to run a first-rate art auction house such as Christie's of London. Consider last week's strange case of the "discovered" Rubens...
...deal. On one such occasion in 1933, Mrs. Savage recalls, her husband bought a wagonload of frames at an average price of 10 shillings each from a dealer in York, who for good measure happened to throw in a florid baroque painting of a traditional mythological subject, The Judgment of Paris...
Scent on the Hill. When Paris came in the auction-house door, judgment apparently flew out the window. Christie's director, David Carritt, was on vacation, and his evaluators, incredibly, attributed the work to a mediocre 17th century copyist named Lankrink, appraised it at $280, and placed it in the July 28 auction catalogue. Then it was hung in "the Hill," a long, sloping corridor where a few specialists are allowed to browse among works soon to be sold. There it was that Oliver Millar, deputy surveyor of the Queen's painting collection, paused and pondered...