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Painterly Walls. The art inside is abstract, brutal and sober. Spanish artists prefer to call their work "informalist." Zobel inveighs against the impression that Spanish painting is "exaggeratedly tragic, a lot of King Kong beating on the chest." Says he: "There is Spanish restraint, absolute control of material, unsentimental romanticism, if you like, but none of this Germanic flopping around the deck with tears streaming...
When the Founding Fathers wrote Article II of the Bill of Rights, they considered that the right to bear arms was eminently sensible for a sober people who had to tame a raw land with hundreds of perilous frontiers. The U.S. of 1966 has no marauding Redcoats or redskins, but it still has plenty of guns. Firearms can be bought by any kook or crook in Maryland pawnshops, in Texas sporting-goods stores or from any one of hundreds of mail-order houses-as the assassination of President Kennedy tragically illustrated...
...reason was simply that the euphoria, in his view, was getting out of hand. And mindful of past occasions when rosy prognostications had ended in a nationwide letdown, the President decided last week that it was time to inject some sober realism into the mood...
...bring the issue before the Bundestag, and he complained that a magazine of the "reputation and importance of Paris Match cannot be allowed to poison the political atmosphere for the purpose of creating a phony sensation." Said Die Welt's Munich correspondent Wilhelm Maschner, who has done some sober reporting of his own on German neo-Nazism: "Such false alarms tend to weaken resistance against the real causes for alarm...
...puritanical and humorless Malvolio, the square peg in the play's round hole, wears a long black gown and sports a moustache and goatee, looking for all the world as though he had just been sitting for a sober portrait by Van Dyck or Rembrandt. Feste the Clown is dressed in pink and rose, and makes use of hand-pup-sets. The earnest Viola first appears is dark gold; but when she disguises herself as the page Cesario, both she and her twin brother Sebatian (each believing the other drowned) are clothed in white-ruffed cerulean, exuding the purity...