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...thing about the Max Beckmann retrospective that began its travels in Munich a year ago is that it will have been seen in only two U.S. cities --first St. Louis, and now (through Feb. 3) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York City turned it down flat, apparently because the Museum of Modern Art held a big Beckmann show 20 years ago. But since one of the main facts of contemporary art is the resurgence of figurative expressionism, it seems ridiculous that the East should not see what, despite some trimming, amounts to the definitive exhibition...
...villages opened for the athletes two weeks before the Games, Ueberroth waited for the predicted nightmares to happen. By now the tension had reached its peak. "I always had the feeling," he recalls, "that at any second something would erupt." Foremost in his mind was the realization that at Munich in 1972 the Israeli athletes had not been seized until the tenth day. "I carried a calendar around in the center of my skull," he says. Crises, small and large, occurred by the hour. The man Ueberroth had picked to climb the towering steps of the Coliseum to light...
This year as many as 50,000 automobiles will be brought into the U.S. privately, a twelvefold increase in three years. Herbert Singer, a Munich car dealer, claims that half his sales are exported to the U.S. Says he: "I could sell five cars a day to Americans if I had the right color." The savings can be big, even after the $8,000 or so is paid to ship a car from West Germany and adapt it to U.S. safety and emission standards. Example: a Mercedes 500 SEL, when bought from an authorized dealer in the U.S., is about...
...more fatal tendency: "Democracy tends to ignore, even deny, threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed to counter them." In other words, democracy instinctively resorts to appeasement, usually justified as the encouragement of totalitarian "moderates" over "hard-liners." A French diplomat shortly after Munich, Revel notes, described Hitler as caught between Goebbels and Himmler [hard] and Goring [moderate]; Stalin wheedled concessions out of the Roosevelt Administration by warning that his liberal tendencies were under attack in the Politburo...
...newly unveiled Part II displays a significant change; Gilbert Noon is now studying for a doctorate in Munich and, more important, he has become a fictional surrogate of D.H. Lawrence...