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...kept appearing on his canvases with a cub-istically dislocated face. Even more unflattering was his muttonheaded portrait of Painter Francoise Gilot. Though Picasso and Francoise had two children, she finally left him in a huff. "I am not living with a man," she complained, "but with a monument." Picasso was all of 71 when the blow fell, but he soon found consolation with young Jacqueline. If the Paris-Presse portrait is any indication, this marriage may turn out to be the happiest...
...tortured, that Dolci writes of in his angry indictments of the island's society. For St. Francis, these were the beloved of God, chosen by him to atone for the greed and spiritual bankruptcy of their fellows. But for Dolci, the outcasts of Sicily are simply a monument to men's obliviousness of one another...
...century, a 26-year-old song tinkerer in Vienna wrote a gigantic cantata that profoundly impressed an already influential German composer, Richard Strauss. To Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder heralded a new flowering of post-Wagnerian romanticism. But the work was, in fact, only a massive monument to a musical tradition about to decay. After it, Schoenberg was to begin the experiments with atonalism that eventually determined the direction of 20th century music. Once popular in Germany, Gurrelieder had its U.S. premiere under Leopold Stokowski in 1932, has rarely been performed since. Last week at Carnegie Hall, still...
...they might be offensive in the eyes of prospective football players, I was curious to see how certain this campus is that athletes belong above the law and radicals below it. I, for one, am certain simply that the educational level represented in this act must stand as a monument to the faculty of Harvard University, and that the lack of protection for the pickets speaks as highly for the administration. Daniel Eigerman...
Both the talk and the war monument were premature. The Communist-led rebels still held most of north central Laos, and the road into their lair was studded with land mines, freshly imported from Red China. Though Boun Oum's generals predicted all-out victory "within a week," most foreign observers on the scene predicted a negotiated truce. Late last week King Savang Vatthana, an easygoing monarch who prefers to remain above politics, reluctantly left his palm-fringed home town of Luangprabang, flew to Vientiane to convene his council of ministers. Purpose: to see if he could devise some...