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Sunrise at Campobello (by Dore Schary) extends from Aug. 10, 1921 to June 26, 1924-from the day that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was stricken with polio to the moment when he rose, at the Democratic National Convention in Madison Square Garden, to nominate Al Smith for President. The interval between represents a catastrophe in F.D.R.'s life out of which he forged a victory; it has thus all the contours of the classically beleaguered hero. In addition, Sunrise at Campobello offers the classic motif of external pressures, with F.D.R.'s imperious mother wanting her crippled son, by returning...
...Madagascar dig up their dead each year, roll them in shiny new wrappings and carry them about in a gay shuffle dance before returning them to their graves-a ritual precisely symbolic (though Thomas did not note it) of regular tribal practices among the TV idea men of Madison Avenue...
...space where the circus shows off its freaks, directly below the main arena where hockey players hack at one another with stick and skate, Madison Square Garden last week became a colossal art gallery. The most massive exhibition of U.S. painting and sculpture in decades-more than 1,500 works from 40 states and Hawaii-lined 4,200 running feet of plywood panels and sprawled over 40,000 sq. ft. of space in the Garden's basement Exposition Hall. The all-encompassing title of the show: "Art: U.S.A...
...Real Hunger. Nordness announced plans to take over Madison Square Garden, show 4,000 works of art painted in 1957. None was to be larger than 48 in. by 48 in. When fellow Manhattan art dealers predicted this would bring a deluge of mediocrities, Nordness agreed to have a jury whittle the entries down to about 1,000 volunteered works which would go into the show along with offerings from a specially invited group of already recognized name artists...
With the whole spectrum of U.S. painting up on the walls and Madison Square Garden converted into a supermarket for art. Promoter Nordness hung on the turnstiles, at week's end seemed to have a fairchance of breaking even. Attendance (at 95?a head) for the first two days of the ten-day show: 6,942. Total picture sales: $15,175. At least the show had demonstrated the widespread, brush-in-hand U.S. interest in painting. With reasonable success in 1958, it might become a revealing annual event...