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MUSEUM OF MODERN ART-11 West 53rd St. Forty canvases, dating from 1940 to 1963, by Hans Hofmann, the panjandrum of abstract expressionists. Through Dec. 1. Also at the Modern Museum: Soft-focus sculpture of the rebel Italian, Medardo Rosso, who worked in wax and accused Rodin of snitching his ideas. In rejecting the notion that sculpture is petrified people, Rosso often gave his glowing waxworks a life that has outlived the subjects. Through...
Empson became the grand panjandrum of the New Criticism, which claimed that a work of literature could best be understood by a detailed analysis of its language. Other critics have had profounder things to say about literature than Empson, but in line-by-line analysis no one can match him. One of the most labyrinthian explications of a poem on record is his 26-page analysis of Andrew Marvell's 72-line Thoughts in a Garden, in which, among other things, he lists every time the word green is used in Marvell's poetry. Green, he argued, meant...
...Mets were easy to love. Their names stirred fond memories-Manager Casey Stengel, for twelve years the double-talking grand panjandrum of the Yankees, ex-Dodger Gil Hodges, still a hero in Flatbush, Pitcher Roger Craig, another well-remembered ex-resident of Ebbets Field. And they sure did try: in six of their 14 lonely victories, they came from behind to win; in 21 of their 37 defeats, they managed to get the tying run to bat in the last inning. Even in defeat, they had humor. "That feller can hit it to the centerfield wall," said Casey...
...farewell lecture as Cambridge University's Reader of English, the grand panjandrum of British criticism, stiletto-tongued Frank Raymond Leavis, 66, set off the biggest explosion to rock Britain's literary Establishment in a decade. Leavis' target: Author-Bureaucrat Sir Charles Percy Snow, 56, whose, eight-volume novel cycle, Strangers and Brothers, has won him transatlantic renown as a perceptive interpreter of the new scientific culture of the 20th century. Dismissing their author as "portentously ignorant," irascible Humanist Leavis suggested that Snow's books "are composed for him by an electronic brain called Charlie, into which...
...bright, modern auditorium was packed to the last seat with notables and students-Swiss and Germans, Americans and Japanese-and the air was electric with expectancy. About to make his farewell lecture last week was Basel University's professor Karl Earth, at 74 the Grand Panjandrum of Protestant theologians, whose multivolume work-in-progress, Kirchliche Dogmatik, may well ride out the centuries as a theological landmark, whose post-World War I sermons on Paul's letters to the Romans lit a cannon cracker under Europe's bourgeoisie, whose resounding no to Hitler stiffened intellectual resistance to Naziism...