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Beckmann's art jangles with the banjo beat and brassy horns of a prewar Berlin nightclub. Despair dresses up in a mauve derby and dirty spats, strutting stiffly around a shallow, klieg-lit stage like a man who has a pocketful of cash and a pawn ticket on his soul. Beckmann painted as if his eyes were taped open; yet his vision of man's fate is shot through with blinding compassion. So endowed, his art ages little, as shown in his first retrospective currently on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, including more than...
...Justice Department, "to preserve harmony and an atmosphere of reason," entered into negotiations with the city's officials. The upshot of these discussions was the unconditional release of the demonstrators--and the withdrawal of the Federal voting rights suit. Law had once more been relegated to the role of pawn in a delicate chess game of equivocation and compromise...
...lucky was a quiet, self-effacing American medical missionary from Torrance, Calif., who for two months had been a pawn of the rebel regime in its negotiations with the U.S., Belgium and the legal Congolese government...
Carlson was arrested two weeks later because he owned a radio, because he was an American, and because the hard-pressed rebel regime wanted hos tages. Along with the other American prisoners, Carlson became a pawn in the rebels' game to buy victory that did not end until the joint U.S.-Belgium paratroop action...
...What a commentary on the mixed-up American way of life that practitioners of medicine, entrusted with the job of ministering to our mentally ill, should allow themselves to be a pawn in the cheap journalistic efforts of Ralph Ginsburg [Oct. 9]. That professional men of such stature should be taken in by such an obvious political smear is indicative of the days in which we are living-days of compromise and diluting of principles, days when sin is labeled as "error," when morality is relative and when materialism emphasizes the values of expediency and the shirking of responsibility...