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...crowd at Bleak House look like a convention of bond salesmen. There are, among others, the social arbiter Mrs. Cortelyou ("When above 79th Street, do as they do above 79th Street"); the warring psychiatrists Dr. Onan L. Digges ("the Saniflush of the Unconscious") and the "Freudy-cat" Dr. Selig J. Reichner; Miss La Fosse, who claims that she graduated from Vassar at twelve and rode "pillion on an older man's motor cycle" long before anyone heard of Lolita. When these characters converge in the back corridors or the main dining hall of Serenity House, they strike continuous comic...
...feature five speakers, all authors of books assigned in the course, they are: Asoka Mehta, national chairman of the Praja Socialist Party; Michael Brecher, professor of political science at McGill University; Edward Shils, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago; Albert Mayer, a development adviser in India; and Selig Harrison, associate editor of the New Republic...
Graves was undeterred by the fact that the painting belonged to Collector Manfred Selig, a dry-goods merchant who has made a specialty of collecting Northwestern artists since he emigrated to the U.S. from Germany in 1940. The alleged Graves was a recent acquisition (price: $200), had been lent to the gallery as part of a show of his collection. Before stalking out of the gallery and heading back to Ireland (where he now lives), Graves scribbled a note to Selig: "I'm outraged that these fake 'Graves' paintings are getting into good collections such as yours...
...critic deplored Graves's "childish tantrum," and another pointed out that "if all artists were to be permitted to destroy fakes or what they consider to be fakes, wherever they find them, all collections would be in jeopardy." A quipster proposed that Selig hang the damaged painting with the label: "Latest work of Morris Graves." But Collector Selig himself was relaxed, wrote Graves a letter: "Your anger was justifiable. I would prefer to leave payment or the choice of replacement of the damaged picture to you. Whatever you decide will be fine with...
...that a significant amount of national publication, especially of the creative writing, has come out of the program (this includes two books, Children of the Ladybug, a play by Robert Thom; and The Flourishing Wreath, a critical study of the seventeenth century British poet Thomas Carew by Edward Selig...