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...give three cheers for the splendid color portfolio and then one cheer more for the men without whom there can be neither building booms nor color portraits about building booms...
...little schoolhouse in Standing Pine, Miss., one day long ago, came a glamorous guest. In fact, he was merely the county school superintendent. But to a ten-year-old farm boy at the school he seemed a grand personage, and the talk he delivered to the pupils seemed a splendid display of eloquence. The boy, Ross Robert Barnett by name, decided that what he wanted to be in life was a "public official." Today, at 64, he is Governor of Mississippi...
...offers two rare plaques by Thomas Eakins, some magical shadow boxes by Joseph Cornell, a fine head by Gauguin, some abstractions by David Smith, whom Hirshhorn began buying 20 years ago. From A (for Archipenko. Armitage and Arp) to Z (for Zadkine, Zajac and Zorach), the exhibition provides a splendid survey of modern sculpture, all the more refreshing because Hirshhorn collected it with no pretensions and no esthetic doubletalk, but simply out of his own compulsive love. When asked why he bought Epstein's Visitation, he explains: "It was a serene, beautiful piece which excited...
...women to be proletarian and pretty. The Sunday supplement of Izvestia argued: "You can't deny a woman's striving to be attractive. What woman's heart does not miss a beat at the words: 'Now that dress suits you' or 'What a splendid hairdo.' This is not just a caprice, but a demand of the times and a reflection of the increased cultural level. We must not consider these 'petty matters' unworthy of attention." Trouble was, added Izvestia pleadingly, that economic planners who are responsible for supplying the "pretty clothes...
...been fitted out with heaters for winter and air conditioning for summer, divided into a foyer, a circular salon opening on a library and studio, a dining room, bedroom and chapel. And from the wide terrace behind the battlements of the 100-ft.-high tower, the Pontiff has a splendid view of the Eternal City. So pleasant is the prospect that the Pope may elect to spend every summer there...