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...died (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947), leaving in his Riviera villa, and in museums all over the world, the glowing fruits of a lifetime's happy labor. Last week a huge Bonnard retrospective exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was offering conclusive proof of the sunlit warmth and size of his achievement...
Most of John's portraits on exhibition last week shared a quality that went beyond his sharp eye and skilled, sensitive hand. They had warmth. Even the portrait of Governor Fuller, who was hardly John's sort, showed that the artist's heart, as well as his art, had been called into play. In his autobiography, the old man, looking back, decides that "Love is a vagrant and when we revisit the tents, we find the gypsies gone and nothing left of them but a few rags and the black circles of their fires." John...
...happen, as if the wonderful jeunesse of America were suddenly to retain their idealism and vitality and courage and imagination into adult life, and become the wise and good who make use of them; the old dollar values are silently crumbling, and the selfcriticism, experimental curiosity, sensibility and warmth [of America] are on then-way in. For Americans change very fast...
...kind of phrase to set off cheers. And it dramatically illustrated the differences between the two men. Stassen did not argue the point-he coolly implied that everyone knew he was a liberal and that Taft was a conservative -if not a reactionary. He shook thousands of hands with warmth and enthusiasm, answered hecklers so quickly and with such a disarming appearance of candor that he almost always stirred applause and laughter...
Paine Hall seemed a little more acoustically frigid than usual Wednesday night when Noel Lee '46 began his recital. To his first two pieces, Froberger's Suite in D Major and Frescobaldi's Five Italian Dances, the pianist failed to bring the warmth which has made his playing of Thoroughbass music distinctive and successful. And, on this occasion that warmth was particularly missed, since unfortunately what the performance lacked in feeling was not compensated for by the pieces themselves...