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Serene Moonlight. In painting as in manners, Tanner was a conservative. Nonetheless, he enjoyed a remarkable popular success. Soon after he arrived in Paris, he began to paint Biblical subjects in Oriental settings. Executed with sinuous vigor of line and a dramatic use of chiaroscuro, these pictures had much in common stylistically with Edouard Vuillard and Art Nouveau. When Daniel in the Lion's Den was shown in the Paris Salon in 1896, the famous French history painter Jean-Leon Gerome insisted that it be given a place of honor. When the Raising of Lazarus was shown...
...matter by last week, saying that the decision would be Finch's. On Tuesday, the White House agreed to go ahead with the nomination. Knowles later told a friend: "It was all signed, sealed and delivered." Then, unexpectedly, the opposition gained fresh strength and pressed with renewed vigor for the White House to withdraw Knowles. House Republican Leader Gerald Ford, who had been quietly opposing the appointment, and Texas Republican Senator John Tower reminded Nixon of the A.M.A. campaign contributions. Other Republicans echoed Ford's opinion that "there must be somebody less controversial who is equally qualified...
Valley was a pharmacological and gynecological nightmare. Reader interest, soaring along on a series of drug ingestions, couplings and nervous breakdowns, finally hit an apogee with breast cancer. Love Machine lacks Valley's primitive vigor but equals its obsession with pathology: leukemia, gall-bladder trouble, heart disease, neurasthenia and nymphomania play important roles. One man is terrified of losing his genitalia; another surrenders them gladly in order to become a woman. The central character, a power-mad television executive with a superhuman capacity for vodka and coitus, is mysteriously incapable of love and marriage. The explanation is only...
...Eugene Carson Blake, LL.D., general secretary, World Council of Churches. Few men have sought with such vigor to bring to fruition the one visible universal church...
Among the world's great classical-dance companies, Leningrad's Kirov preserves with museum-like fidelity the ballet traditions of Imperial Russia. The New York City Ballet dazzles the eye with its athletic vigor and the astonishing choreographic virtuosity of its creator, George Balanchine. What Britain's Royal Ballet offers above all else is the English style. Style it indubitably is: the Royal's approach to dance is essentially lyrical rather than dramatic, narrative instead of abstract. It offers an almost invisible way of dancing that emphasizes detail-perfect simplicity and linear beauty rather than energy...