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...Broken Mold. No one knows when Fra Angelico first began to show the unmistakable signs of genius. Only a year after he took his final vows, his convent was thrown into turmoil as a result of the rival claims of three Popes. The Fiesole monks saw their prior arrested, and fled for safety to Foligno, then to Cortona. But from this nine-year period of exile, no record of Fra Angelico's activities has survived. One theory is that, on the Dominicans' return to Fiesole, Fra Angelico worked under Lorenzo Monaco, a Camaldolese monk famed for his manuscript...
...whoever the master, Fra Angelico was an apt pupil. His first Virgin and Child surpasses Monaco's in both draftsmanship and coloring. More important, Fra Angelico broke free from the rigid mold of medieval art; his Virgin is no longer two-dimensional, but a figure that turns in space with a life-giving gesture...
...inability to mold a well-oiled machine between now and the January elections may ultimately prove disastrous to Mendes-France. Despite his great popularity in the provinces, the short time before the voting will work in favor of the well-organized political groups. Indeed, the party benefiting most by the election call may well be the Communists whose machine functions continuously, election or no. A further factor against Mendes' success stems from another peculiarity in French electoral laws which allows parties to form alliances during elections. Without the backing of a strong coalition and without election reforms it is unlikely...
...dozen or so industrial empires which control the destinies of 165 million people. They have been given virtually complete freedom from governmental control. Their officers and directors comprise the very Cabinet of the Government. Their representatives constitute the powerful army of dollar-a-year men in Washington who form, mold and enforce economic policy...
...makes news, however, only by continued calm expansion. Advanced Standing, as Hanson puts it, is not a revolutionary program to redesign American education. It is just a feeling that the traditionally fixed grade levels--freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior in high school and college--are not always the best mold for the education of a young American mind...