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...sloppiness found in much of today's writing indicates a deeper unconcern with fact and accuracy, Tuchman told an audience of approximately 100 people in Harvard Hall. Tuchman said that a true feeling for grammatical structure could come only from a study of Latin no longer emphasized in modern education...
Contemporary writing often shows a "disrespect for structure" and a lack of concern for "the right and correct," Barbara Tuchman '33, author of "The Guns of August," said yesterday in a talk sponsored by The Writing Center...
...retreat is on. An exhibition called "European Painting in the '70s" opened last week at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It is the first show of its kind to appear in an American museum since, believe it or not, 1959. Ably organized by Curator Maurice Tuchman, it consists of 65 paintings by 16 artists. The show will travel to the St. Louis Art Museum in the spring of 1976, and to the Elvehjem Art Center in Madison, Wis., in the summer-but not to New York...
...course, impossible to find 16 artists who could represent the full range of style and preoccupation in European art, so Tuchman has restricted his choice mainly to figurative paintings by "loners"-artists who, for one reason or another, have not closely identified themselves with particular groups or movements. Some of the work is familiar to a U.S. audience: the sumptuous paranoia of Francis Bacon's images (TIME, April 7) basking like altarpieces behind their glittering shields of glass and gold leaf; the cool, infrangible poise of David Hockney's still lifes and portraits. Pierre Alechinsky, the Belgian painter...
...BARBARA TUCHMAN, U.S. historian: George Washington. He did a marvelous job, achieving his objective, surmounting incredible opposition and obstacles of lethargy and cowardice...