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...Hirshhorn collection has always been controversial, partly because nobody except Abram Lerner, its director, and Hirshhorn has seen everything in it. Hirshhorn has been collecting longer than the Museum of Modem Art, and with hardly less money at his disposal. The tone has been one of impetuous enthusiasms and voracity, rather than the historically balanced connoisseurship a great museum needs. Thus Hirshhorn's enthusiasm for De Kooning has resulted in a superb group of early De Koonings, whereas some other key abstract expressionists, notably Pollock, are represented by weak or indifferent works. So although the works on view...
Devil's Yard, the best of the four novels, is a searching examination of the mind of 20th century totalitarianism. The novel is set in a massive, fetid prison near Istanbul, in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, but the prison is obviously a modem police state in miniature. Guilty and innocent alike are cast into this prison where all standards have disappeared. Its chief warden is a masterpiece of characterization, both repellent and sympathetic, a tyrant trapped by fate as his victims are trapped...
...explosion. A ten-year veteran of jet flying assigned to Okinawa's Kadena Air Force Base, Schmitt managed to head his crippled plane away from the densely populated city of Ishikawa (pop. 30,000) before he bailed out. But the pilotless ship suddenly veered, headed straight for the modem, U.S.-built Miyamori School, where 1,306 Okinawan children were having their morning milk break...
...written in 316 B.C. by the Greek Playwright Menander, whose 100-odd comedies were outranked in the ancient world only by those of Aristophanes. Out of Egypt. Even more intriguing. The Curmudgeon is the first complete play by Menander discovered by the modem world. Two years ago the only known copy, scrawled on papyrus possibly by a schoolmaster in the 3rd century A.D., turned up mysteriously in the hands of a Greek antique dealer in Cairo. The finder: Martin Bodmer, a millionaire Swiss banker and bibliophile, who whisked it off to his lavish private library in Geneva...
...late El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, was everything Morocco's modem nationalists despised. He was France's chief collaborator. For decades his Berber warriors had helped impose French wishes on the restive Arabs of the cities, and engineered the exile of Sultan Mohammed V. His power was feudal; his revenues, ranging from levies on Marrakech's prostitutes to commissions on every commercial transaction in his domain, had made him rich beyond any man's dreams...