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Last week the Carracci received a tribute from the greatest holdout of them all, Critic Bernard Berenson,,' who once dismissed their whole school as "worthless." Wrote Berenson in Milan's Corriere della Sera: "After a century of obscurity and almost oblivion the Carracci, with a roll of drums and the sound of trumpets, have made their great comeback in Bologna." Berenson still refused to place the Carracci "among the greatest painters," but he gave a cheer for Annibale's Butcher Shop. Said he: "My attention is attracted by the realism that pervades this painting...
...gone.' I just don't sing as well as I used to ... The feel for a song isn't there, the desire to sing, to be in action-and when this is absent, so is the style." Modest Millionaire Crosby was not upset by prospects of oblivion. "Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin that it's almost opaque over a quite unbelievable term of years-30 of them actually...
...that you have jinxed Harry S. Truman into oblivion with your Aug. 13 cover, he is no longer an "elder statesman" (by his own admission) nor a "live politician" (by his irresponsible statements at the convention). He has now joined the ranks of the has-beens...
...masterwork of sobersided, redheaded John Vanderlyn (1775-1852), a painter deeply admired in his youth, deeply pitied in old age, and deeply buried in the textbooks after his death. The picture's new home at the Met should do much to rescue Painter Vanderlyn from his long oblivion...
...Cloisters, the Met's outpost on the Hudson River). He wonders if it might be the work of famed Renaissance Sculptor Donatello, known to have been one of Poggio's close friends. But for the moment, he says, "we must remain content to have brought back from oblivion a masterpiece of the 15th century...