Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although De Gaulle may have been misbehaving more flagrantly than the others, few, if any, NATO partners are entitled to exhibit great moral outrage over lagging integration. Items: R.A.F. planes stationed in Europe are at NATO disposal, but R.A.F. defense units in Britain are not; the Scandinavians allow no NATO planes to be stationed on their soil; the atomic weapons that provide NATO with its Sunday punch are jealously kept under U.S. control by act of Congress...
Goldilocks the Victim. But even the present volume has its moments. With great glee, Miller lampoons the shock of the American tourist upon first encountering a Paris pissoir, adding: "I do not find it so strange that America placed a urinal in the center of the Paris exhibit at Chicago. I think it belongs there, and I think it a tribute which the French should appreciate. True, there was no need to fly the Tricolor above it." Oddly enough, the best piece is Miller's account of how, a little squiffed from cognac, he told the story of Goldilocks...
From his woodcuts, now on exhibit at the Paul Schuster Art Gallery (24 Palmer St.), Irving Amen might be diagnosed as an artistic schizoid. One can imagine a sweet Amen dominating the show, who produces pretty pictures of little children, prophets and other homey subjects; but occasionally one also finds a bitter Amen, whose work is more profound as well as more pessimistic...
...woodcuts. The Schuster Gallery, however, supplies none of this information. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the show is minimized by a careless arrangement that breaks up obvious sets, such as Adam and Eve, and ignores considerations of size and color. But what remains the most regrettable artistic defect of this exhibit is the burial of some works of artistic worth in a mass of readily salable trivia...
...Thanksgiving Day the President worked alone over the drafts of two major speeches he will deliver to the Indian Parliament in New Delhi and at the opening of the U.S. exhibit at New Delhi's World Agricultural Fair. Draft writer: Kevin McCann, president of Ohio's Defiance College and author of Ike's 1952 campaign biography, Man from Abilene. The theme was the theme that led the President to seek a second term: the quest for peace and for the goals that free nations share and should share. He skipped Thanksgiving services (Mamie went on alone...