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Over the revelry at the Venice Biennale fortnight ago hung the disconcerting possibility that even as this famed old exhibition displayed its own mediocrity and disorganization, a lesser-known art festival 400-odd miles to the north was preparing to put on a top-grade show. The newer exhibition is at Kassel, where the Brothers Grimm lived, located at the geographic heart of Germany, and it is called Dokumenta...
...could not match the variety and richness of Marlowe's Edward II. In the years immediately following, however, Shakespeare's skill advanced markedly, as evidenced by Richard II, his first really great serious drama. Richard III, the capstone of an historical tetralogy, is far inferior to the much lesser-known Richard II for many of the reasons that Henry V, capstone of his other historical tetralogy, falls far short of Henry...
...Justice Douglas relies on a West Coast lawyer named Stanley Sparrowe. The others do more scouting and interviewing on their own. Justice Stewart is high on Yalemen, Justice White favors Westerners, Chief Justice Warren looks for Californians. Justice Black likes fellow Alabamians; Justice Clark tries to tap lesser-known law schools. Aspirants know all these quirks. "My best chance was either slipping in as one of Stewart's Yalies," said one of this year's hopefuls, "or under Warren's California quota...
...thing, Lodge strongly argued against Nixon's debating Kennedy on television; after all, Lodge had had some experience with Kennedy, and knew he was a fast fellow on his feet. Lodge also considered it poor tactics for the well-known Nixon to debate the lesser-known Kennedy. For another thing, Lodge urged Nixon to concentrate less on the South, more on the big industrial centers of the North and Midwest. Lodge also wanted to imprint some of his foreign policy ideas on the Nixon campaign, but he had trouble even passing them along, much less seeing the presidential candidate...
...Gaggle of Princelings. A ring of royalty surrounds Munich, making it the society center of Germany. The gaggle of local princelings includes Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns, lesser-known Hatzfeldts and Croys, but the dominant family is the Wittelsbachs, who ruled Bavaria from 1180 to 1918, when Kurt Eisner's revolution threw them out. The Wittelsbachs still live in the splendid Nymphenburg Castle- Munich's Versailles-and their shadow court dominates the city's social life. At the Aristocrats' Ball, held earlier this month in the Vier Jahreszeiten Hotel, only those patricians with at least 32 titled ancestors...