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...many good pictures and so many bad ones has always mystified critics. Some critics believe that his lapse of taste was due to the influence of the camera, that as Corot approached modern Impressionism, he was guilty of "photographic flimsiness" in his drawing, in his effects of light and shade...
...mountain, full of shade...
Holding the first of what it calls Twilight Previews (6 to 8 p.m.), Manhattan's streamlined Museum of Modern Art last week devoted two-thirds of its largest gallery space to Painter Pavel Tchelitchew. The 214 exhibits, hung against a color scheme (each wall a different shade) devised by the artist, formed the biggest retrospective Tchelitchew show ever assembled. The remaining rooms displayed 43 carvings, 25 drawings by American Sculptor John B. Flannagan, who died by suicide last January...
Newspapers are not always careful about their unbridled ability to sway opinion, and so sometimes yield to the temptation to shade the truth to their desires, PARTICULARLY AROUND ELECTION TIMES. In such times the public has little redress, but if the abuse goes too far, the liberty of the newspapers will one of these days likewise be curtailed. Democracy acts this...
...spend $125,000 and 100,000 man-hours to fill out Government forms. Another tiny manufacturer got so far behind on his paperwork that he had to shut down for three weeks to catch up. Some tell-us-everything forms "reached the dimensions of a small window shade" (at the same time that WPB prohibited the sale of wide-carriage typewriters). Worst of all, the committee found that, despite an early Nelson order allegedly limiting data requests, eager WPBureaucrats "with convenient mimeograph machines" were sending out sheaves of "bootleg" forms, not to mention countless stop-the-press telegraphic requests...