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...five-verst shelf of books on Russia -hortatory, minatory or merely muddled, whether by Webb-footed economists, panting pilgrims, puffing pundits or Red-eyed viragoes-must surely comprise some of the most glum and gullible guff in the history of letters. A rare creature, exotic as a hummingbird in the tundras, has just been sighted in this dreary literary region. Truman Capote, previously noted for his ability in tatting webs of lacy sensibility, has written a wise and witty report on Russia...
Also John N. Loeb of Kirkland House, Chemistry; Dale A. McNeill of Dunster House, Physics; Donald J. Marcuse of Eliot House, Fine Arts; Warren J. Plath of Adams House, Linguistics; David B. Shillman of Eliot House, Classics; Richard J. Steckel of Winthrop House, Biochemical Sciences; Julian P. Webb of Dunster House, Physics; David S. Wiesen of Lowell House, Classics...
Prime mover behind the new museum is the recently widowed Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb, 64, who thought that the first week's warm reception was a good indication of "what a big need the museum is going to fill." Richly endowed with cash* and energy. Craftswoman Webb started her crusade for handicrafts back in the Depression '305 as a home-based relief project, later founded the nonprofit American Craftsmen's Council, which started its own craft training school (now part of Rochester Institute of Technology), its own magazine (Craft Horizons; circ. 15,000), and Manhattan's America...
...opening exhibit the craft museum chose to show a 314-item cross section of new trends, ranging from Potter Peter Voulkos' hefty vase to SculptorWelder Harry Bertoia's rod and slab screen in bronze and chrome. Pointing out that the exhibit will travel, Aileen Osborn Webb said that she does not "think of the museum as a New York activity." By sending shows on tour she hopes to raise standards and open new horizons for creative craftsmen all over...
...university dons have started life with so many handicaps or so much courage. In some versions of his life, G.B.S. seems so cold and distant that friends appear merely as puppets. Not so in this book-as is evident from Biographer Ervine's memorable description of Mrs. Sidney Webb and her husband, both Shaw's fellow Fabians: "Her embraces sometimes seemed more like assaults than endearments. [Sidney] would sit in his chair, with a statistical abstract in one hand and a White Paper in the other, while she balanced on his lap like an entranced houri...