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Reuther's seat on the council went to William Pollock of the Textile Workers Union, but another place might be vacated if Reuther wanted it. Meany remarked dispassionately that the U.A.W. chief should register his complaints through "appropriate channels" within the A.F.L.-C.l.O., where they would get a fair hearing. Asked if that constituted leaving the door ajar for Reuther's return to the fold, George said: "I would accept it as that...
...published Holmes' correspondence with Sir Frederick Pollock. That edition, like Howe's later editions of Holmes' Civil War letters and his correspondence with Harold Laski, was notable for the unobtrusively informative notes with which Howe outfitted his text. Scarcely a book was so obscure or a person so forgotten by history that Howe was unable to provide Holmes' reference with concise words of identification and appraisal...
...recently completed a course in modern art in hopes that I might gain some appreciation for the currently hailed art trends. However, I was completely disillusioned with the hodgepodge of junk that supposedly caters to the American taste. I can find beauty in the colors of Pollock, design in the geometric abstraction of Malevitch, and esthetic reasons for the distortions of Picasso; however, I can find no purpose in pop art or minimal art. Previously, I thought that I just wasn't with it; now I know there's nothing to get with...
...experience. But inevitably, within a few years a new church was established. Says Artist Saul Steinberg: "This church has its saints, who are accepted only after they are dead. We have the holy bones of Mondriaan and the miraculous blood of Soutine. This church has its martyrs, like Jackson Pollock. It has its bishops and cardinals-the critics and museum directors. The museums have encouraged the production of icons, holy images, and other good luck charms that have no artistic value outside the church." The church also has its missionaries-the dealers. Among the leading ones right now is Manhattan...
...intent and personality is the only common note that modern opinion strikes. It is a doctrine that brings art criticism down to the plane of psychoanalysis. The principle was perhaps pushed to its extreme by Peegy Guggenheim, who has admitted that she was not much impressed by Jackson Pollock as a painter until the day he urinated in her fireplace...