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...Comedian Charlie Chaplin, 65, and mother of five of his nine children, dropped in at the U.S. embassy in London and renounced her U.S. citizen ship. Thus, like her London-born husband who from his classic film roles piled up an estimated $20 million during 42 years as an alien resident of the U.S., Oona became a British subject. Chaplin, who faces a Justice Department grilling on leftish and immorality charges if he ever tries to re-enter the U.S., was "proud" of Oona's new status...
...most surprising things about Andean art is its variety. At various points it seems to relate more to alien cultures than to itself. Shown on the following pages are an early stone puma that resembles nothing so much as an ancient Chinese bronze, a gold figurine that looks like a Javanese puppet, a double-image vessel that prophesies cubism, and a portrait head worthy of Sir Jacob Epstein...
Last year Niarchos ran into legal trouble. The U.S. Justice Department seized 15 of the ships chartered to him, on the charge that he had bought them from the U.S. Government through U.S. front corporations, though he himself was an alien and hence prohibited from such purchases. But Stavros Niarchos, who is in Europe, is not letting his troubles interfere with his career. Next week another new 33,000-ton tanker, built for him in Britain, will be launched, and soon after that a third will go down the ways in Germany...
Says Dawson: "The [medieval world] was always at grips with the problem of barbarism. It had to face the external threat of alien and hostile cultures, while at the same time it was in conflict with barbaric elements within its own social environment which it had to control and transform. And in this work it could not rely on the existence of common standards of civilization or common moral values. It had to create its own moral order before it could achieve an ordered form of civilized existence...
...Blake-who thought of God as "Old Nobodaddy" and of most men as nobodies-saluted one of his few friends. Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) was, in fact, neither Turk nor Jew, but a Swiss Lutheran; Blake brandished the terms in honor of his friend's rebellious temperament and alien air. Fuseli's style as a draftsman and painter strikingly resembled that of the great Blake. As a result, his reputation has languished in the shadow of his friend's genius. Last week Manhattan's Morgan Library had on view the first comprehensive Fuseli show ever held...