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Railway porters, French whores, ferocious Irish colonels, obsessed priests, poets, lovely girls and frustrated concert violinists loom up in the story and disappear. Each page of the book has its verbal delights, but it is doubtful if Cusack has made a true mosaic of his brilliant bits of colored stone...
With science pretty much out of this world, and politics "in the realm of surrealism and fantasy, doesn't modern art loom large as a most real and reasonable, concrete and most reputable human activity?" demanded U.S. Abstractionist Ad Reinhardt. No. 15 (opposite) is one of Reinhardt's more seeable creations: usually his colors merge and vibrate so elusively as to cause eyestrain. The 9-ft.-high canvas is also a standout exhibit at what may be the most provocative art show now hanging: "Acquisitions 1957-58" at the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo...
...high-minded resolve to dedicate outer space to "peaceful purposes" does not stand up well before the arguments that 1) peaceful purposes are an integral part of the psychological cold war, in which the U.S. is already suffering from running behind; 2) the possibilities of gigantic military advantage loom for the nation that first makes space its backyard. Reported the House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration last week: "Inexorable changes in society and political power will follow the development of space capabilities; failure to take account of them would virtually be to choose the path of national extinction...
...other side of the continent, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland is expected to lose to Democrat Pat Brown. Should Rockefeller win in New York while his party is losing in California, he will loom as a strong contender for the Presidential nomination...
...brake any big drop in Artloom stock. It banned the use of "stop orders"; i.e., orders placed in advance by stockholders to sell (or buy) when the stock reaches a certain price. Such orders to sell, as they are successively executed, often send a stock plummeting. Nevertheless, Art-loom's price sagged last week...