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...Cannot Go Back." Belgian Astronomer Karel Cuypers pointed out that Humanism is the heir of organized religion, and warned the delegates that totalitarian ideologies may take advantage of the decline of organized religion to substitute themselves for God. "The loosening of the grip of religion has created great danger both for religion itself and for Humanism," Cuypers warned. "But we cannot go back. We cannot return to irrationalism and to mysticism without denying ourselves...
Three of the reproductions are in color. Eisenhower is one. Willem de Kooning's polyschizoid Marilyn Monroe is another, into which much can be read. The catalogue ends with the aggressive reds, oranges, and yellows of Karel Appel's Dizzy Gillespie, in which one can hear the searing screams of the trumpeter's high F. It would be hard to think of a better bargain than this publication; it well merits a permanent place on one's shelves...
...opposed to the political) revolutionary. He is the man in love with life, the Nietzschean yeasayer who devours all ex perience, even the experience of a brutal beating, and finds it nourishing. Author Sillitoe has recognized and unforgettably defined a type. Actor Finney, under the keen direction of Karel Reisz, a gifted maker of documentary movies, embodies the type with remarkable vigor and exact ness. Finney's strongest asset as an actor is his presence, an inward weight that holds the center of every scene, as the heaviest fish holds the bottom of a net. But he is also...
...burly Karel Appel is Holland's best-known living painter, but greater fame and fortune came to him from out-side his native land. Last week, out of 131 paintings from 28 nations, most of them on display at Manhattan's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Appel copped the $10,000 Guggenheim International Award, the fattest of all international art prizes, for a violent, swirling abstraction called Woman with Ostrich, in which neither woman, nor ostrich was particularly recognizable except to those who have been overexposed to the Rorschach inkblot tests. At the Martha Jackson Gallery a few blocks south...
...Sukarno prepared to join Khrushchev at the United Nations next week to raise the question of West New Guinea and the Karel Doorman, Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns observed sadly: "International relations are drifting toward a kind of anarchy where blackmail replaces the rules of diplomacy...