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...preoccupation with spatial harmony and with the distortions he used to achieve it, there was nothing cold or seemingly calculated about Weber's art. "Distortion should be born of a poetic impulse," he said. His war scenes, his paintings of workers, the face of an old rabbi could be cries of pain-as much a "search for fundamentals" as the magic key to design. "Art is the real history of nations," Weber said. "Their politics, their wars, their commerce are but records, as the calendar or the clock is not time itself...
...didn't have enough to ponder, Nelson Rockefeller came in for some criticism on yet another aspect of the divorce question. From a New York City rabbi came the suggestion that Rocky should now take a personal interest in getting New York State's divorce laws changed...
...York recognizes adultery as the sole ground for divorce. The law thus encourages divorce-bound people to commit little white lies by establishing "residence" in states where the divorce laws are less rigid. Said Bronx Rabbi Maurice J. Bloom in a sermon last week: "It is not fair to the citizenry when only the rich can take dubious advantage of fictitious residence in another state for a brief time, and the less opulent are given an example of avoiding our laws by those who can afford it. If New York State had a proper marriage and divorce code, neither Governor...
...Governor, said Rabbi Bloom, has the duty to say "that he believes in a reform of the law," and to urge the state's G.O.P.-controlled legislature to "revise the law in the direction of easing its harsh provisions." Such provisions, added the rabbi, are nowhere to be found in Judaism's moral tenets. "Judaism," said he, "believes in making marriage laws to safeguard marriage and easy divorce laws to make it possible to repair mistakes made by the application of those strict laws. Judaism stresses the sanctity of marriage, and for that reason it does not condemn...
...George Washington Carver Brown studies a Negro soldier going through basic training and treats him as a sort of super-minority-the classic fall guy, mocked and persecuted even by his fellow Negroes. Taub East takes up the theme of alienation and minorities in terms of an amateur rabbi-an enlisted man in occupied Japan-brooding about his kinship with the eta, the "unmentionable outcast class, persecuted in accord with antique, hallowed laws...