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...paintings in the exhibition seem mysteriously timeless. This quality is in great part dependent on the stability of the Chinese civilization. In such a tradition-oriented country, receptivity of new ideas from the outside world was slow. Though early united by a belief in her supremacy over the neighboring barbarians, the "Celestial Kingdom" lacked the internal unity which derives from a rapid system of transportation or a common spoken language. Thus, with little exchange of ideas, progress was negligible...
There are times in Archipenko's more recent work when experiment drowns out art, when the struggle is too obvious, the effect too contrived. But in 1961 he could still turn out work of extraordinary range. His Kimono at the Perls Galleries has the simple and timeless authority of a primitive mask; his Linear Oriental is a daring swoop of lines as graceful as a woman's dress. Archipenko is not much in fashion these days; yet the old freshness still shows through. Modern art owes him a debt, and the debt has not all been paid...
Despite his pessimism, Griswold is hopeful that "the service-station concept of the university" may pass. "Some people in many of our state universities," he notes, are at least trying to reassert "the original and timeless philosophical claims of liberal education." But much less hopeful is the appended "comment" by Robert M. Hutchins, former president of the University of Chicago and now head of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. As an example of "crude pressure and bribery," Hutchins cites Michigan State's "four-year course leading to a Bachelor of Science degree with a major...
...feelings that the truth was never there. Instead, she works from memory, using oil so thinned by turpentine that her canvases seem almost fluid. Her blurred edges perform a double duty. They not only make the figure seem able to move, but they also bathe it in the timeless haze of things seen long ago and never forgotten...
Black Orpheus does not sound to the bottom of the deep well of the past. But reaching almost effortlessly back to Hellenic time, it suffuses the carnival in Rio de Janeiro with a timeless mystery...