Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Skillfully acted and directed, Woman of Rome fails as a work of art because there is no possibility of redemption, nothing beautiful or significant in this view of life. Evil is inevitable, flowing from circumstance and irresistable human weakness, and thus it means nothing. A homily of continued and undeserved misfortune seems morally and aesthetically unsatisfying. Instead of being tragic, it is merely "too bad." One does demand from any work of art that it have moral signifigance, that hope has not died with the demise of God in Western culture. The attitudes of despair and amorality reflected here...
Congress, for its part, is likely to take a dim view of both reports, since both call for programs that imply the spending of more money than the President has asked in his 1958 budget-and this sum ($4.4 billion), Capitol Hill statesmen already have made clear, is more than most Congressmen intend to grant...
...Munich Fauves. Paul Klee lived two houses away, and near by were Alfred Kubin, Franz Marc, Alexei Jawlensky, August Macke. In painting excursions through southern Bavaria, Kandinsky and Gabriele discovered the village of Murnau, where they bought a house, called to this day the Russenhaus, with a fine view of the Alpine foothills. Kandinsky held court there too. "Every day is like a festival," Macke wrote. "At Kandinsky's we laugh all the time. He laughs like an ancient Greek, so loud and free, really Homeric...
...will check management and financial arrangements between Pan Am and businesses in which it holds interests, such as Intercontinental Hotels Corp., Bogotá Airport, Middle East Real Estate Co. Confidential audit of Pan Am books by CAB raised question whether airline's subsidy should not be cut in view of profits from businesses and affiliated airlines in Latin America...
Pole Fault. In Seattle, a court heard James J. Keesling complain that a power pole, with an arm over his property line, marred his view, awarded him $1 a day for 1,238 days...