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The scope of the exhibition is defined by an early "Still Life," signed "Jeanneret" and dated 1920, eight year before the pseudonym of Le Corbusier appeared. Reflecting the Cubists' carefully controlled forms, precise edge and muted palette, this and other early works contrast markedly with the line ear, brilliantly colored...
Although more young composers join the aleatory ranks every year, most critics denounce the movement as fraudulent, or misguided, or both. Staying one step ahead of his critics. Senior Statesman Cage is already proclaiming aleatory music passe -he prefers to think that his own brand of "indeterminacy" is the ultimate...
Aside from purely physical difficulties, the Leverett Dramatic Society had of Tamburlaine himself. Edward Alleyne is dead, and neither Edward Maguire nor anybody else today is equipped to rant that cosmic role. Even by 1600 it had become passe to split the ears of the groundlings, and we who are...
Divorced. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, 68, eminent British actor turned situation comedian on U.S. TV (Mrs. G. Goes to College); by Actress Mary Scott, 39, his second wife, who accused him of fobbing her off with such passe dialogue as "Marriage is for the bourgeoisie"; after eleven years of marriage, one...
More legitimate is the use of trophies by business firms, which have discovered that there is nothing like an engraved prize for the mantelpiece to urge a slow-moving salesman out of his atrophy. "Cash," says Robbins, "is getting to be passe for rewarding efforts. A lot of people want...