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...exhibit as a whole showed once again that realism in the U.S., as in Europe, has been on the wane for the last 50 years. Before the turn of the century, Albert Pinkham Ryder was laughed at for his dreamy, semi-abstract seascapes. Successors such as John Marin made abstraction an important part of U.S. art history, and today it is the language of hundreds of young American painters...
When Ben Hogan and his U.S. Ryder Cup golfers came ashore from the Queen Elizabeth at Southampton, meat-rationed Britons swallowed hard at the sight of the team's 600 steaks, plus bacon and hams, which went through customs duty free...
...Tragic Sense. At Berkeley, Oppenheimer also apprenticed himself to the late Professor Arthur Ryder, greatest Sanskrit student of his day. In the long winter evenings, he and a handful of other students visited Ryder's house to share his Sanskrit learning and his Stoic faith...
...Ryder taught Oppenheimer to read the Hindu scriptures in Sanskrit, his eighth language. Oppie still reads them, for his "private delight" and sometimes for the public edification of friends (the Bhagavad-Gita, its worn pink cover patched with Scotch tape, occupies a place of honor in his Princeton study). He is particularly fond of one Sanskrit couplet: "Scholarship is less than sense, therefore seek intelligence...
...From Ryder, the eternal apprentice also got a new "feeling for the place of ethics." Says Oppenheimer: "Ryder felt and thought and talked as a Stoic ... a special subclass of the people who have a tragic sense of life, in that they attribute to human actions the completely decisive role in the difference between salvation and damnation. Ryder knew that a man could commit irretrievable error, and that in the face of this fact, all others were secondary." Tartly intolerant of humbug, laziness, stupidity and deceit, Ryder thought that "Any man who does a hard thing well is automatically respectable...