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Such men stand out against a near wasteland of postwar French abstraction. Even the best talents involved in it, like Nicolas de Staël (1914-55), now look somewhat mannered and superficial; no wonder that the paintings of the New York School had such a traumatic impact on their aesthetic environment. Nothing could be tamer than the late-cubist scaffolding, the tidy compartmenting of the surface that provided the formal recipes of artists like Serge Poliakoff and Maurice Estève. Then there were the "religious" abstractionists, like Alfred Manessier, with their mock stained glass; and the gestural painters...
Alan Greenspan, a New York economic consultant and sometime adviser to the Reagan Administration, is the board's only gold advocate. He believes that the U.S. can and should reinstate the gold standard if the Government manages to curb rising prices and restore the dollar's sta bility. Says Greenspan: "Once inflation has been conquered, the discipline of the gold standard would surely reinforce anti-inflation policies and make it far more difficult to resume financial profligacy...
...lldin unexpectedly agreed to Social Democratic demands that a proposed 50% limit in taxes on income earned after wages be delayed until 1983. He also agreed to reduce by 50% the deductions that high-income property owners could claim for interest payments. The surprise deal angered Gösta Bohman, leader of the coalition's Moderate (Conservative) Party, who blasted the compromise as "a total capitulation." Said Bohman: "They didn't even telephone me once, and I'm the Finance Minister." After he stormed out of the government with seven other ministers, Fälldin was forced...
George Sand never made it. Neither did Colette nor Madame de Staĕl. For ever since the elite 40-member Académie Française was established by Cardinal Richelieu in 1634 to uphold France's literary standards, it has barred its doors to women. But now the "Immortals" have voted to breach France's macho line by admitting Novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, 76, author of Hadrian's Memoirs and acclaimed translator of Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Though Yourcenar holds U.S. as well as French citizenships and has lived in Maine for 30 years, what...
DIED. Paul Dessau, 84, East German composer of operas and incidental music best known for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht (Mother Courage, The Caucasian Chalk Circle); in East Berlin. Following a career as a violinist and conductor of the Staädtische Oper in Berlin, Dessau fled the Nazis in 1939 for America, where he began writing the dissonant scores that so effectively complemented Brecht's scripts. An old-line Communist, Dessau returned to East Germany after...