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...seaport of Greifswald in 1774 and died obscure and slightly mad in Dresden in 1840, Friedrich was one of the most German artists Germany produced in the 19th century. He never made the obligatory journey south to study in Rome; his subject matter was the foggy and precipitous vista, sublimely expansive and filled with premonitory brooding. The writer Ludwig Tieck believed Friedrich was the Nordic genius incarnate, whose mission was "to express and suggest most sensitively the solemn sadness and religious stimulus which seem recently to be reviving our German world in a strange way." This month a retrospective...
...Defense Department officials who have been studying the problem, the White House expects to announce the details of the plan. Presumably it will require a war resister to make some sort of statement of contrition and serve for a period in an organization such as the Peace Corps or VISTA. Attorney General William Saxbe acknowledged last week that the plan will not be welcomed by all of the estimated 50,000 war resisters involved. But the President is determined to "open the door to them," said Saxbe, adding that the plan "will make it as easy...
Michael J. Stimson Chula Vista, Calif...
...masterpiece. Perhaps it is not, in formal terms, a great painting. But it is quite unforgettable, suffused by apprehension. Salome is less a dancing girl than a priestess, absorbed in her solipsistic gesture, gliding on point across the inlaid floor. In the brooding Herod, the standing executioner, the vista of Moorish arches and sifting gloom, one sees the apex of the kind of sensibility that in the hands of a Cecil B. DeMille would be coarsened to death. Every inch of the surface glitters with an enameled vitality, rigid and sparkling. Moreau's favorite theme, that of fatality...
...case for cautious liberalization of the laws. The inquiry was begun in late 1972 by U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Arthur Sorosky, who noticed that those of his patients who had been adopted tended to have special identity problems. Enlisting the help of Social Workers Reuben Pannor and Annette Baran of the Vista Del Mar Child-Care Service, Sorosky solicited opinions on the open-records question from adoptees, as well as from natural and adoptive parents. The trio received 600 letters, many of which they followed up with interviews. The response of the natural parents was often passionate. Wrote one mother: "No cross...