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Chandler, who is completing a book on the modern corporation, told an audience of about 30 students that the Sherman Antitrust Act, the basic legislation against monopolies, has at most prevented markets dominated by a few firms from becoming controlled by a single firm...
...gingerbread or lathed dowel work created when the houses were built in the eighties or nineties by, we fantasized, a craftsman who while still a boy had come back from Lee's troops--Lee's Miserables, as one good Baptist preacher punned--or Johnson's, retreating north from Sherman. (Sherman's Memoirs, horribly written, in a thick green volume with the general's stars on the spine, talks about approaching Exeter...
...collection is small-300 items -but discriminating. It is especially strong in Nepalese bronzes, sculpture from India and Southeast Asia, and ceramics and lacquer from Japan, Korea and China. The rationale behind the collection, explains Dr. Sherman Lee, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, who frequently advised Rockefeller on what to buy, "is one that insists on the highest possible quality in the objects acquired and on their capacity to be understood and enjoyed by the interested layman." Included in the gift are some of the most striking South Indian bronzes and stone carvings of the 8th to 11th...
...current show at Manhattan's Asia House is, in effect, a tribute to Cleveland and its director, the eminent connoisseur of Chinese art Dr. Sherman Lee. Entitled The Colors of Ink, it is a selection of classical Chinese black-to-white paintings on silk and paper lent from Cleveland's collection and dating from the 10th century, when the colored paintings of the T'ang dynasty were superseded by a new monochromatic style, to the 18th century. One could not hope for a more succinct introduction to what one of the artists represented on the walls, Tung...
...which is one of the sharpest divisions in our culture, barely existed for them at all; they expressed their thoughts with characters, not words, and these characters, having evolved from pictograms, were both sign and idea. A mark of the brush could both mean and represent a mountain; as Sherman Lee notes in his catalogue, "Since one designed and wrote a character with the care demanded by art and one's own personality, it was natural to think in terms of ink and brush ... The artist could not approach nature as other than a concept, an abstraction in black...