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...Landscape of Auvers painted just three weeks before his death in 1890 and an 1886 self-portrait. A voluptuous Renoir, After the Bath, painted in 1876, is the twin to one in Moscow's Push kin Museum. Also on view are outstand ing paintings by Cezanne, Delacroix, Millet, Manet, Monet, Degas and Corot. But, for many critics, the most exciting works were four oils and two sepia sketches of the view through his window by the German Romantic, Caspar David Friedrich, who died in 1840. Their misty vistas and eerily precise draftsmanship emphasize the mystic tie that binds Goethian...
...gallerygoing was a genteel affair. To and fro across carpeted floors swept the art lovers, sipping sherry. Safely up on the wall were the paintings, framed and titled, with prices on request. But no longer do the panes of varnish give onto idyllic visions of pinky Titian nudes, fluffy Millet sheep, plush Poussin valleys. Nowadays, avant-garde gallerygoing is more like the full 100 yards, with the visitors swivel-hipping through art works that threaten to tackle the visitor's body as well as his sensibilities (see color pages...
Morganthau, Director of the Institute for the Study of American Political and Military Policy at the University of Chicago, spoke with H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, and Stanley Millet, professor of Government at Adelphi University, in a panel discussion on the war in Vietnam. The speakers attracted large crowds to both Lowell and Burr lecture halls...
...Millet concluded with a story from a Vietnamese friend who told him that he admired American intentions but "God help any small country you undertake to save from Communism...
Three critics of U.S. policy in Vietnam will analyze the war at 8 p.m. tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall. Hans J. Morgenthau, Director of the Institute for the Study of American and Military Policy at the University of Chicago, H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, and Stanley Millet, former professor at the University of Saigon will participate in the discussion sponsored by the Faculty Committee on Foreign Policy and Harvard-Radcliffe Students for a Democratic Society...