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Hoffmann and Safran, along with Steven D. Krasner, assistant professor of Government, participated in a symposium on American policy in the Mid-East before an audience of 150 in Burr Lecture Hall...
...Krasner said that the United States must realize that it cannot use military power to achieve economic objectives, and that the Arab oil cartel will not, in all likelihood, be broken in the next five years...
...long subjugation to Pollock's spirit began in 1940. Manhattan's McMillan Gallery was putting on a show of Picasso, Matisse and Braque, and proposed to have three unknown Americans exhibited with them. One was Willem de Kooning, another was Jackson Pollock, the third was Lee Krasner. At the time, Krasner was 32 and totally absorbed in the bohemian life...
...many ways a curious partnership. Pollock was the son of a Nevada rancher who had moved on to California. Lee's father was a Jewish emigrant from Poland who owned a food store in Brooklyn. Pollock sweated out lonely struggles with himself. Krasner was more suggestible. Sometimes her work echoed Mark Tobey, other times Mondrian, most often De Kooning...
Success began to come to Pollock; and the deadly cycle that can afflict suddenly famous artists started. Pollock fell into drinking bouts and took up with girls; Krasner began to commute to Manhattan to see a psychiatrist...