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Judging from this exhibition one night imagine, that the schism between poetry and Strum and Drang lies in intensity of emotion or dramatic nature of the subject. Actually Goya's "Disasters of War," certainly more graphic than anything here, or Picasso's "Guernica," more symbolic and abstract than anything here, answer an emphatic no. For if Barlach, Kollwitz, Grosz, et al, utter an emotional cry from the blackness of chaos and confusion, it is Picasso and Goya who offer, with emotion disciplined. "right" and "inevitable," an answer which cannot help being true...
...Kobe, the Pittsburgh of Japan, in a brisk, U.S.-style election campaign. He made a big hit. A caretaker Premier for only ten weeks, savvy Old Politician Hatoyama was determined to win a longer lease on the job. He did not hesitate to promise the moon, or to strum the samisen strings of renascent Japanese nationalism...
When I was a child in Alabama, I remember hearing ignorant country minstrels strum guitars and sing...
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...Insurance," the third topic, will be presented by Hauers, second vice president of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company in Boston. Hauers is also vice president and director of Van Strum & Towne, Investment Counsellors. He is head of the Estate and Trust Department of Moody's Investors Service...