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Certainly something is happening to our idea of the University and its relationship to both society and the arts. But to define this change is to define the University, and that is more or less impossible. There are, however, a few salient facts about the creative arts and Harvard which seem particularly significant...
...famed Art Critic Bernard Berenson. "She lacked genius." The failing of Milan artists, in Berenson's critical view: "Prettiness, with its overtones of gentleness and sweetness, formed, as it were, the primordial substance of Milanese painting. Like an infinite ocean of soap-bubbles, it covered even the most salient figures with a formless iridescence...
...young Chinese are eager for learning and enlightenment. They band together in hundreds of small groups to discuss art, literature, music and the world of ideas. Many a shrewd Communist has been able to plant his ideas in fertile soil. With the battle all but lost in this vital salient, Thailand's Chinese anti-Communists last month sent a call for help to Formosa. Their answer came in the form of a fat, jovial, 43-year-old music teacher named Chu Yung-chen...
Perhaps because he was the General Sickles who led the III Corps into an indefensible salient in the Peach Orchard at Gettysburg, he has never had more than a corporal's guard of biographers, unlike the platoons, companies and regiments bristling about the tombs of other Civil War heroes.* In 1945, Edgcumb Pinchon wrote Sickles' first biography (TIME, June 18, 1945), but he was too preoccupied with Sickles as a sexy swashbuckler to catch the personality captured by sober-sided Civil War Buff Swanberg. Here the snaggle-toothed old warhorse gets free title to his redoubt...
...than others, because they have ostensibly had a greater light while the rest of the world presumably flounders around any which way. The unrelaxed tension in Author Powers' stories is the pull of the real against the ideal. In an earlier book, Prince of Darkness, he found a salient image for that tension in a priest eating his breakfast: "He jabbed at the grapefruit before him, his second, demolishing its perfect rose window." Essentially, this is the perennial fall of man before the images of truth, beauty and faith to which he aspires...