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...Gabriel Marcel, who has remained among the foremost of French existentialists for nearly half a century, said in his first William James lecture yesterday that a philosopher only remains a philosopher so long as he retains the child's capacity for "wonderment...
GABRIEL H. MARCEL, William James Lecturer on Philosophy and member of the Institute de France, will discuss "The Existential Background of Human Dignity" in Emerson...
That's Grandmother. The exhibition does well by these "old masters"-so well, in fact, that when the viewer leaves the historical galleries and moves on to those devoted to the present, he has a sense of having been there before. The descendants of Marcel Duchamps' "readymades"-a bicycle wheel, a bottle rack, a urinal, all shown just as they are, but out of context -are everywhere. Arthur Dove used needlepoint, some old shingles, and a page from the Concordance to evoke the essence of Grandmother, just as Edith Schloss uses worn and faded materials for her nostalgic...
UNIVERSITY: Joshua Logan, who a lot of money from a good musical based on a novel by Marcel Pagnol, has tried to do the same thing in Hollywood and has failed--at least, aesthetically. FANNY is genuine four handkerchief family-style mediocre entertainment- starring everyone that should appear in a Hollywood musical about foreigners: Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Horst Bucholz and Maurice Chevalier. Afternoons and evenings...
...will be one of the greatest wine years of the century. That was the word from Marcel Lugan, director of France's National Confederation of Wine and Wine Spirits of Appellations of Origin. In a transport of sedimentality, Lugan rhapsodized to newsmen that "the wines of 1960 are like Zizi Jeanmaire-nervous and muscled, but not full-bodied and rounded. The wines of '61 will be like Mae West-a Rubens woman to whom one can add nothing; a Bardot wine, if you like-round and appealingly plump." Or, to put it less plumply, "1961 is a black...