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...Kupka labored under a distinct handicap: his obvious foreignness as an artist. His work looked, and in deed was, Northern rather than Mediterranean, full of theoretical obsessions, flights of mysticism, involuted decor, heavy symbolism and transcendental yearnings. There have been greater abstract artists than Kupka, but none so unmistakably Slavic. Later, when Kupka's eminence as a pioneer of abstract art was recognized-his first completely abstract pictures were done around 1910-11-the French tried to claim him as a true Parisian in whom the Central European heritage was aesthetically unimportant...
...been accepted. "They were all so good that we just couldn't make up our minds," Jewett explains. In a press conference the same day, Bok announces the doubling of tuition and the elimination of scholarships. He also auctions off the Old Testament half of the Gutenberg Bible, the Slavic Languages Department, and one of the Lowell House Russian bells, to the Shah of Iran. "I've always been fond of the Bible," Bok says, "but the Shah wanted a package deal...
...protecting Brezhnev, the outrageous distortions of what really happened to Nixon are obviously tailored to fit the official conspiratorial view of the U.S. system. Says one Western diplomat in Moscow: "It jibes with what are probably their basic beliefs about how America operates. It also fits the deep-rooted Slavic feeling about plots." Adds a Scandinavian official posted in the Soviet capital: "No one wants to raise the question of popular pressure bringing down a government that lies. Imagine what that could mean here." But Moscow's preposterous Watergate coverage raises another question: whether the concept...
Albert B. Lord '34, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature...
...made the right decision in the first place. A further drawback is that Simon and Chekhov are not on the same wave length of humor. Simon's forte is the self-deprecatory one-liner with a New York Jewish accent. Chekhov's humor contains a deep-flowing Slavic melancholy together with a riotous farcicality. Compassionately, his work embraces the innate foolishness in all of humanity. Atmosphere and nuance, all-important in Chekhov, are not Simon's strength, and having a sort of Fiddler on the Roof band concertizing on stage for 20 minutes before curtain time does...