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...precedent--put very precisely the argument against the Court's action: "The record not only fails to reveal any interest of the state sufficient to subordinate appellant's constitutionally protected rights but affirmatively shows that the investigatory objective was the impermissible one of exposure for exposure's sake...
Even if an effective mode of administration is worked out, however, both the specific projects and the participants must be carefully chosen. For the sake of U.S. prestige, the "Peace Corps" can not afford to make mistakes. Sir Hugh Scott Taylor, a foundation executive, found in the medieval children's crusade a spirit common with the "Peace Corps" plan. The reference was not meant mockingly, but, taken as a mark of disdain, it suggests a real danger. Membership in a "Peace Corps" calls for roughing it without complaint, for adapting to a strange cultural environment with tact and grace...
...tryout. One prospective first-nighter who declared himself unworried was T. H. White, who will get 1% of the gross, or about $3,000 a month for the life of the show. From his home on the remote Channel island of Alderney, he wrote to Lerner: "For God's sake, forget about me. I want Camelot to succeed as a musical. Put in bubble dancers if you want." To his pen pal Richard Burton he wrote: "I hope it will be borozonic. I will be there on opening night, the old gentleman in the sixth row." Meanwhile, since White...
Apples & Pictures. Malraux is both irritating and sentimental when he tries to give art for art's sake a religious mystique. Art to him is an "anti-destiny," man's only means of asserting himself in a meaningless universe. He equates sacred and profane works of art by arguing that both aim at "defeating the tyranny of Time": though Vermeer "had no intention of imparting to his Maidservant that morsel of eternity which the Egyptian sculptor imparted to his Zoser, he may well have wished his picture of this girl to enter into a world akin to that...
Malraux thus is open to attack from two sides. The art-for-art's-sake partisans are impatient with such metaphysical preoccupations, and argue that a well-painted apple is its own excuse for being. The religiously orthodox argue that the apple, no matter how well painted, has nothing to do with the case; art cannot solve what Malraux himself describes as "the problem set [man] by the spark of eternity latent in his being...