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Timely Gift. Prince Edward County (pop. 14,121), a tobacco-growing farm land 70 miles southwest of Richmond, is increasingly illiterate. Four years ago, 3% of Negroes aged 5 to 22 could not read and write; now the rate has grown to 23% , according to a sur vey made by Michigan State University. Some poor whites are also unschooled: other whites pay tuition averaging $265 to send their children to "private" schools, including a handsome new high school in Farmville, the county seat. Most of Prince Edward's 1,725 Negro children get no formal education...
...abandoned chicken hatchery in Petaluma to the ballroom of San Francisco's Sheraton-Palace Hotel. Not until evening, when delegates to the Ameri can Symphony Orchestra League's convention began drifting into the room, were all the instruments ready. There stood the "Spoils of War," the "Sur rogate Kithara," the "Harmonic Canons I and II," the "Chromelodeon" -and there stood Harry Partch, quietly examining the tolerant smiles that have confronted him all his life. "This re minds me of an old Chinese proverb " Partch told his 400 listeners. " 'I agree...
...before the pseudonym of Le Corbusier appeared. Reflecting the Cubists' carefully controlled forms, precise edge and muted palette, this and other early works contrast markedly with the line ear, brilliantly colored Taureaux paintings of the 1950's. The most recent work displayed is an Aubusson tapestry "La licorne passe sur la men completed...
...each a fast-growing repertory of stock techniques: the placement of the curious (whether an object, texture or color) next to the ordinary, the abrupt disordering of space, an almost mannerist play of light. He jumped like a child at hopscotch from Fauvism to cubism to Dadaism to sur realism, but it was Dada that shaped him most. He was one of the few American members of the original school, and for him it never really died: his determined disrespect for the materials of art and deep attention to the ideas that art can shape lend the current collection...
...little in the exchange that could be called mere gossip. When Durrell's wife leaves him, the fact is briefly noted; and he soon replaces her in the country house in Provence with a French-Alexandrian girl able to type 10,000 words a day. From Big Sur, Miller dryly mentions "Lepska has decamped," but soon he too is being well looked after. Both live their lives of authentic dedication to writing; there is no unpleasant whine about its disciplinary austerities such as disfigure the correspondence of D.H. Lawrence or even the tougher but litigious Joyce...