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...when drunk than when sober. When drunk, he is generous, kindly, amorous, democratic and the soul of good fellowship. When sober, he is mean, arrogant, priggish and smoldering with hatred for his fellow man. Puntila sober, as Brecht sees it, is a class-conditioned animal. Puntila drunk is Rousseau's child of instinctive natural goodness. Some richly comic scenes pivot on this personality split. Puntila sober wouldn't dream of fraternizing with his chauffeur Matti; Puntila drunk begs Matti to marry his daughter. Puntila drunk gets engaged to four separate girls; Puntila sober throws the brides...
Brought up in the west of Ireland on savage libertarian principles derived from Jean Jacques Rousseau, Nicolette went barefoot, often swam naked in the freezing Atlantic. When her fearless father Macnamara led her across the peat bogs, he was accustomed to throw her across the wider draining ditches. After that cuckoo County Clareman walked out on Mother and the Macnamara brood, they were given house room by Augustus John...
...each case derived the same answer. All else, previously beautiful, has faded from our sight. We have become disillusioned as a nation because we hear nothing but Vietnam -- day and night. And in addition to all this ugliness and loss of beauty -- it's damn boring. George S. Rousseau Instructor in English
...course was no pipe. "One of our first assignments was to memorize all the objects in a room at the Fogg," remembers Curator Lieberman. "And of course we did it." Sachs liked to teach more by anecdotes than academics. "He talked about all his purchases," remembers Curator Rousseau, "and gave us a sense of the tactics you have to learn. A museum person has to be fast on his feet-a scholar, a collector, a dealer and a showman all mixed with diplomacy. Sachs was all these things...
...Among them: the late James Rorimer, director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art; Met Curators Theodore Rousseau and Jacob Bean; Museum of Modern Art Curator William Lieberman; Chicago Art Institute Director Charles Cunningham; National Gallery Director John Walker; Harvard's Fogg Art Museum Director John Coolidge; Fogg Assistant Director Agnes Mongan; Boston Museum of Fine Arts Director Perry Rathbone; Morgan Library's Curator Felice Stampfle; Toledo Museum Director Otto Wittman...