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None of these reviews--as fuzzyminded as they were--presaged the visciousness of Andrew Sarris in The Village Voice, or the pretentiousness of Eugenia Collier in the Sunday Times two weeks ago. Sarris attacked what he called "UNESCO-inclined critics," proclaiming that those who like Conrack (and other more-or-less "message" movies, including Sounder and Hoa Binh) are hopeless much-headed idealists, overwhelmed by uplift. But the critics Mad Andrew wrote about are figments of his imagination, since the only famous critics who praised the film (Kael and Kauffmann) are rigorous, not at all the "melting marsh-mallows...
...still works in ceramics, an art he practically revolutionized in a col laboration with Pepito Artigas that began in 1944. They decided that ce ramics should be monumental and pro duced major works like the double free standing walls at UNESCO headquarters in Paris...
...trustees. Under his stewardship, the encyclopedia's sales zoomed during the next two decades from $3,000,000 to $125 million, netting the university $25 million in royalties. Benton was a staunch liberal and a bitter foe of Joe McCarthy in his Senate days (1949-53). An early UNESCO supporter, he ultimately served the organization as Lyndon Johnson's ambassador...
...until 1970 that UNESCO adopted a convention aimed at the thieves' trade. Like other museum men, Hugues de Varine, director of the International Council of Museums in Paris, thinks this document is "better than nothing." But neither he nor anyone else is really optimistic about it as only three of its 26 articles call for real action from the signatory nations; these refer to the need for export certificates, tightening of penalties for theft and prohibiting museums from buying stolen antiquities. So far, only a few countries, like Ecuador and Honduras, have signed the convention. The U.S. signature...
...Moscow to change its ways. Last week the U.S.S.R. suddenly announced that it accepts the Universal Copyright Convention. Although royalty payments will not be retroactive, the Soviets are now committed to enter into financial contracts with foreign publishers, just like the 62 other adherents (including the U.S.) to the UNESCO-sponsored convention...