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...XXIII set up a pontifical commission in 1963 to revise the code. Pope Paul augmented the Commission, which now includes 61 cardinals and 88 consultors-nearly one-fourth of them Italians. Although the makeup of the commission suggests that reform of canon law will be slow and cautious, Monsignor Willem Onclin, its Belgian co-secretary, was present at the meeting of the U.S. Canon Law Society that received the study group's proposals, and returned to Rome astounded and pleased by the adventurous spirit of the suggested reforms. The recommendations will be received "with gratitude," Onclin assured the Americans...
...Willem de Kooning...
...equally rich-and heavily weighted toward Americans. Thomas Eakins, for instance, is represented in a quantity surpassed only by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He has kept up with recent op and pop trends, owns 30 early and late works by Larry Rivers. His bet for future fame: Willem de Kooning, of whose works he owns 42. "If ever I have a museum," he once vowed, "I'm going to have a De Kooning room...
...murals turned up in post offices in Anadarko, Okla., Corning, Iowa, or Hartselle, Ala., a nation woke up to art. During the period, such artists as Rockwell Kent, Reginald Marsh and Grant Wood became popular favorites. In their shadow, other figures such as Ad Reinhardt, Arshile Gorky and Willem deKooning were learning and living under the same program. For the first time in U.S. history, the artist was not only officially recognized, but also Government approved...
ORNETTE COLEMAN'S At the Golden Circle, Stockholm, Vol. 1 (Blue Note) is his first recording in three years, and shows the happy effects of his welcome in Sweden as a cultural force-the Willem de Kooning of jazz. Coleman has been such a successful musical iconoclast that his music no longer sounds far "outside," although his alto sax still skips and dips in a blithe, wild way. Here, it occasionally turns into a little tune and then suddenly wrenches free again. His string bass player, David Izenzon, provides a wonderfully eerie foggy bottom in Dawn...