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...Variety of techniques is astonishingly wide. With great economy, Josef Scharl captures Einstein wonderfully (see cut), Ben Shahn gets the rough ruggedness of Hemingway, and Arthur Okamura the glowering violence of Toscanini...
Saturday's agenda calls for an informal art seminar, to be led by artist and lecturer Ben Shahn in the Quincy Junior Common Room. David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, will moderate a panel discussion entitled "Commerce and Culture: Possibilities, Tensions, and Liabilities." "Who Killed Society?" is the topic for a lecture by author Cleveland Amory...
...Holmes Arts Festival Orchestra will highlight Sunday afternoon's program. Jonas Mekas, editor of Film Culture magazine, will speak on "The New American Cinema" later in the afternoon. Playwright Edward Albee will conclude the Festival with a lecture on "New Forces in Drama" Sunday evening. With the exception of Shahn's seminar, all the formal activities are scheduled for the Quincy Dining Hall...
...strange shapes, which led Tanguy to call one painting The Furniture of Time. The collection has a dung-colored landscape by Jean Dubuffet ("the strongest painter in postwar France"), a couple of childlike fantasies by Paul Klee ("the vigilant ally of accidental beauty"), an unusually appealing Liberation by Ben Shahn showing three small French girls swinging wildly in the air upon the liberation of France...
Arthur Goldberg, 52. Goldberg is skilled at the Cuban dice game of carabino, a collector, in a modest way, of the works of Picasso, Matisse and Shahn, a gluttonous reader of books of all kinds, and a loyal fan of the Washington Redskins. He is also the leading labor lawyer in the U.S., a man who has had a major voice in every significant labor-management decision of the past decade, but who has never been a legitimate member of a labor union. As Secretary of Labor, he may have to make some difficult decisions, such as enforcing Taft-Hartley...