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...Splendor of Numbers. There are tranquilizers in the water supply and Sleep Days to smudge the memory of a disorderly but more vital past. Blasted trees and frazzled grass have been replaced by plastic imitations. Numbers have replaced words as the most artful means of expression. Says Mr. Colin Monk, an H.D.A. administrator: "How I admire the immunity of numbers, their untouchability, their inaccessibility: every moment they shine, newly bathed, concealing, never acknowledging the dark work they...
...flat plane. His acrylics run from red-violet through aqua. But Packer's three-paneled work attributes more importance to form than does James Brown's-stripes end in curved edges, and three vertical stripes are halved in the last panel, leaving a blue one erect in solitary splendor. And Peter Sutton's "Homage a Picasso," one in oils, goes back to Cubistic formal analysis. The oil painting cleverly echoes Picasso's "Three Musicians," complete with guitar neck...
Died. Princess Irina Youssoupoff, 74, widow of Prince Felix Youssoupoff, the assassin of Rasputin, and niece of Czar Nicholas II; of a heart attack; in Paris. A fragile beauty whose wedding to Youssoupoff in 1914 mirrored all the pomp and splendor of the Romanoff empire, Princess Irina was hundreds of miles away on the evening, two years later, when her husband poisoned, shot and bludgeoned to death the Mad Monk. Soon afterward the couple fled to England, where in 1934 Irina made world headlines by winning a $125,000 libel suit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the film Rasputin...
...Baroque 18th century Hofkirche (Court Church) is finished and used regularly for Catholic services. The old Landhaus (Statehouse), an imposing mansion reminiscent of Versailles, has been turned into a museum (see color pag?). The exquisite Kronentor (Crown Gate) on the moated Zwinger has been restored to its original splendor. The royal palace and the opera house are to be rebuilt...
...Splendor and Doubf. Doubt dawned slowly upon the incipient country parson. "At last gleams of light have come," he wrote, "and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable...