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...blame lies with all of us. We have seen minds which would throw out a ballot, and we have permitted them to live. We have taken the worst from among us, and systematically elevated them to the HCUA. We have seen the office of class marshal reduced to a scrap of carrion for which jackals fight...
VIOLENT contrasts racked his life and art. His poems could be golden and struck by grace, split by the metaphysical hammer of God; but his most golden lines were yoked to an ironic, satanic vision of the meanness of a scrap-iron age. He captured, and still captures, the minds of the young; but he personified himself as "an old man in a dry month," and his characteristic poetic voice was that of a man who seemed at least 50 the day he was born...
...paintings. While only the residue of vast hoards of some 80,000 art works repatriated after the war, the art bounty, now in gilt frames stacked like storm doors in the cellar, is resplendent with Botticelli, Cranach, Tiepolo and Titian. There are scads of Flemish masters, but not a scrap of canvas from 19th century France, whose artists Hitler scorned as the fathers of decadent modernism...
Master Sinner. In deference to Labor's unilateralist disarmers, Wilson had pledged that, once in office, he would not only scrap Britain's independent deterrent but also oppose the U.S.-backed multi-lateral force. However, in his talks with President Johnson in Washington, he had, in fact, not so much opposed MLF as proposed a way of enlarging and diluting it. In reporting on his talks to the party conference, Wilson hedged: he had not committed Britain to MLF. he said, and had entirely "reserved" his position. This was patently less than the whole truth, but enough...
HERBERT KALLEM-Roko, 867 Madison Ave. at 72nd. Kallem once shared a studio with Stage Funnyman Zero Mostel (who paints too), is clever enough himself to provoke smiles with plumbing fixtures, pipes, and scrap iron that wind up as owls and other witty figments of his imagination. Through...