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These pictures are strictly the latest thing. This week they are being shown in a Paris gallery, along with 17 other examples of "American Vanguard Art." The U.S. has welcomed a lot of hard-to-take art from Paris, and this collection seems calculated to show Paris that U.S. abstractionists can dish...
Writing in the 17th of a series of newspaper articles serializing his recently published book. "I Led Three Lives," Philbrick declared that the Party's "Pro-group" or elite, "the vanguard of the vanguard," was composed of a number of "surprising personalities." "Culture," he stated, "simply oozed out of out Pro-group; graduate and honorary degrees were a dime a dozen...
...were some mutterings from the squirearchs, Eccles was widely applauded for trying to shift Tory emphasis from "inheritors of wealth" to "creators of wealth." Socialism, on the other hand, said Winston Churchill, is trying to keep in power by "appealing to moods of greed and envy," by keeping "the vanguard back" for the benefit of the laggard...
Maurice de Vlaminck used to be one of the "wild beasts" (fauves) who in 1905 led the vanguard of modern French art. Nowadays, he enjoys bellowing about the hollowness of it all. Paris painting circles last week were chewing over the latest Vlaminck roars, published in the Paris weekly, Arts. Excerpts: ¶ "The capital of France has become an immense flea market. To the connoisseur hoping to find a truly French painting . . . everything new turns out to be old and refurbished . . . Even the fleas are false." ¶ "Mechanical invention reigns in the studios of Montmartre and Montparnasse. Mankind is consumed...
...federation, once upon a time a source of public pride to "liberal" Methodists-as if it were a sort of vanguard of tomorrow's Christianity-has now become a subject of denominational embarrassment. It is a subject sure to be waiting on the doorstep when U.S. Methodism holds its General Conference next spring...