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...celebrated drama of Goethe," said le vieux Charles, "Mephistopheles described himself thus: 'I am the spirit which denies all.' Then, in listening to the advice of Mephistopheles, the unfortunate Dr. Faust went from mis fortune to misfortune until final damnation. Frenchwomen, Frenchmen, we will not do that. Pushing aside doubt, the demon of all decadence, we will follow our way. It is that of a France which believes in herself and which, because of that, is open to the future...
Died. Matthew R. Goodman, 20, Cornell University senior and only son of Author Paul Goodman, social philosopher (Growing Up Absurd, Compulsory Mis-Education) and unofficial saint of New Left campus movements; of injuries when he fell from a ledge on New Hampshire's North Percy Peak while on a climbing expedition...
Legros, who spends his time between a Paris apartment, a New York hotel suite (he briefly operated a Manhattan gallery), and various hideaways, has so far insisted that he made innocent mis takes. But Lessard is a French Canadian, and Legros is a naturalized U.S. citizen of French extraction; this description tallies with the two men from whom Meadows bought most of his paintings. "They were charming-real artists, the biggest con men ever," says Meadows wryly. But he is not taking the A.D.A.A.'s judgment as final. While another French dealer, who sold Meadows seven fakes...
...Adam Clayton Powell voted to exclude from the House of Representatives five members-elect from Mis sissippi-even though the delegation met all constitutional requirements for admission. All were over 25, U.S. citizens and residents of the state they sought to represent.*Now that the shoo is on the other foot, Powell contends that Congress has no constitutional right to deny him his own seat in Congress. Last week his suit based on this argument was thrown out of Federal District Court in Washington...
...when speaking in general on American policy in Asia, I sometimes feel it strange that despite these fine scholars and experts in America--such as at Harvard--and a most up-to-date assortment of materials from Asia, Americans suffer from many mis-judgments in their Asian policy. Is the reason a lack of intercourse between scholars and the administration? Or is it a general lack of understanding about Asian problems among the American people? Probably this is a partial explanation. Or is it that America has some sort of limit in the understanding of Asia? I think...