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Whisper & Torch. The sixth and final volume of Irving Brant's massive biography begins as Madison is leading the U.S. into the War of 1812. In the five previous volumes, Brant argued energetically and effectively that Madison was the forgotten Founding Father, a man dehumanized by historians because of his "intellectual powers, his Addisonian style of political writing and his concentration on public affairs." As proof that he had a more human side, Brant even dug up some mildly salacious poems that Madison had written at Princeton. In his present volume, Brant claims that Madison was also a strong...
...elusive rebels. Farther north, below the bulge of Africa, lies a 2,800-sq.-mi. sliver of Portuguese territory called Cabinda. Here the authorities recently tried to snuff out revolt by arresting all the local chiefs and every Cabindese who could read or write. Villages were put to the torch, and most of the colony's 60,000 natives fled across the border into former French and Belgian Congo. But even making a desert of Cabinda was not enough to end revolt. Last week a band of natives armed with homemade muzzle-loaders slipped back into Cabinda and ambushed...
...past couple of decades, many weird objects have been produced by the welding torch and palmed off as sculpture; but heat and metal and modern art do not always have to create monstrosities. One man who has proved this is 56-year-old José de Rivera, 15 of whose sculptures went on display last week at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. De Rivera's scoops and swoops of polished or painted metal are liquid geometry produced with such skill that neither hammer blow nor welded seam is ever visible...
This month Zorach will receive the gold medal for sculpture from the National Institute of Arts and Letters-an award that should prompt a fresh look at a man whose perennial appeal is that he has dared to seem passe. While other sculptors have taken to the welding torch or to bolting together abstract constructions out of objects found in city dumps, Zorach's work remains warm and whole some. He has at times teetered precariously close to sentimentality but has never given way to corn...
...somehow become misplaced-perhaps by an artisan who could not read-and should have been PAX TECUM FILUMENA. The presence of a glass phial containing the remains of what was assumed to have been blood, together with certain symbols (two anchors, three arrows, a palm and a flower or torch), was interpreted by archaeologists as proof that the remains were those of a martyr. Her tender age led to the assumption that she was a virgin...