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...grand traditions, none seemed destined for a more in glorious end than painting. Not that good painters did not exist. Canaletto and the Guardi brothers turned out thousands of panoramic Venetian views whose impeccable architecture and exquisite plays of light have since delighted generations, while Pietro Longhi mastered a mellow irony to reveal the domestic texture of Venetian life. But it remained for an extraordinarily forceful young artist named Giovanni Battista Tiepolo to ascend that decaying stage and transform shimmer and shadow into one last dramatic moment for Venetian painting...
...continued right on feeling philosophical too. The fact is that Johnson seems to have grown a mite more mellow since his last birthday, and no longer believes that he can leave behind him a society that has resolved every one of its crises. "The President always has many problems," he told newsmen. "They change from day to day and week to week. But we have none that we don't feel confident that we can find the answer...
President Tito in a mellow mood once claimed that anybody seeking a fuller measure of democracy from him was "pushing on an open door." Then along came a young unemployed university teacher to try the door, daring to challenge Tito publicly. It slammed behind him, and last week Mihajlo Mihajlov, 32, was in jail in Zadar, an Adriatic seaside resort...
Second-Story Man. A massive (6 ft. 4 in., 245 Ibs.), mellow Midwesterner, Mollenhoff displays none of the mulish tenacity in private that characterizes him in public, where he never takes "uh" for an answer. Last March his sniping finally got to McNamara. Angrily, the Defense Secretary asked Mollenhoff to leave a press conference, noting that he had already asked three questions. "You dodged three times," replied the uncowed Mollenhoff. "You seem to dodge everything, Mr. Secretary." Exploded McNamara: "I unfortunately haven't been able to dodge all the rocks you have thrown at me for five years." Three...
...architecture has recourse to Moorish arches of the typical multifoil horseshoe type. In keeping with the mellow glow that permeates the script, Armstrong has used light buff walls with abstract Turkish surface decoration--a gold for Duke Orsino's palace, and in pink and blue for Lady Olivia's house...