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...Gertrude came to think of Picasso as her spiritual brother. In 1913, Leo moved out, taking his favorite pictures with him. "Cezanne and Matisse," he noted sternly, "have permanently interesting qualities. Picasso might have had-if he had developed his gifts instead of exploiting those that he did not possess. The general situation of painting here is loathsome with its Cubico-futuristic tommy rotting." The Stein collection was farther dispersed after the deaths of Leo and Gertrude. As a tribute to a vanished era, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art has temporarily brought it together again: it includes seven...
...other hand, you possess an unfashionable commitment to education; if you feel that art can both refine man's sensibilities and alter the world he lives in, then you may find Mr. Sarris's autcurist flag a more than slightly distasteful emblem of the liberal bourgeois' 50's and 60's frivolity...
This year the Bruins are experienced and possess good depth in the heavier weight classes. They are paced by junior co-captain Frank Walsh. Walsh went to the second round of NCAA finals last year in the heavyweight division and finished the year with a 12-3-1 record...
...raid achieved a good press for the Administration: considering the facts that Laird and others have released, they could have accomplished little else. Laird broke up the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by saying that the intelligence for the operation was "excellent," adding that the U. S. did not yet possess a camera that could see through roofs, and so could not know whether the prisoners were there...
...convinced. For the temptation is too strong, the temptation to convince ourselves that we possess a past that we might have never known, a past that certainly no longer exists. Pretend to the contrary though we might, the past is the victim of the present, is redefined and reconstituted along the lines of our experience...