Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MUSEUM directors are 'haunted by the unhappy examples set by many of their elders, who, if they had had sagacity, could have bought a fortune in paintings hot off the easels of their contemporaries. Mid-20th century U.S. painting offers just such a challenge. Will posterity view the volcanic eruption of abstract art as one of the U.S.'s most dynamic periods? Museums all over the country are now hedging their bets by cautiously buying contemporary abstractions. One museum that has decided to buy as if there were no doubt is Buffalo's 52-year-old Albright...
...increase bank reserves and ease credit. It chose a flat cut in the rates it charges member banks on loans as a dramatic signal to businessmen that it has changed its policy. The increasing worry of economists is not the state of business itself but the businessman's view of business, which has turned alarmingly sour in recent months. Said White House Economic Adviser Gabriel Hauge: "Business is better than business sentiment." And for this lack of confidence the Federal Reserve has largely itself to blame...
...English, as suggested in this very English verse by Sir Walter Raleigh, late professor of English literature at Oxford, live very close to their neighbors, and thus tend to have a depressingly low view of their character, morals and appearance. Angus Wilson, England's cleverest postwar storyteller, succeeds like a gifted gossip in holding the ear of an audience which may deplore the scandalmonger but is entranced by his narrative...
Pretensions & Spitballs. Author Wilson's view of life may sometimes seem like that of an undertaker assessing the most likely customer, but there is no denying the sneering precision of his observations. U.S. readers, without suffering the Englishman's special anguish which comes from a feeling that he is improperly dressed, may acknowledge the deadly accuracy of some of Wilson's catarrhy spitballs. One character sneers at his pretentious brother: "Ah, I see we have a new class now. There used to be those who had the tele [TV] and those who were above...
Polish-born Author Singer, 53, a columnist on Manhattan's Jewish Daily Forward, takes a Manichaean view of God and an ironic view of man. In Joy, the Lord of Hosts finally justifies his stern ways to a modern Job. In The Wife Killer, Author Singer touches on a recurrent theme, that vengeance is God's business, not man's. The book's best tale is the title story about Gimpel. who has seven names in all: 'Imbecile, donkey, flax-head, dope, glump, ninny and fool. The last name stuck." Gimpel the Fool...