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...lesser degree, does George Price. He lives in an old 18th-Century Bergen County Dutch house in Tenafly, N.J., which he has filled to the eaves with U.S. antiques, some of them of very dubious authenticity. There, in an attic studio, surrounded by three stripling sons who alternately bawl, play the clarinet and scatter the floor with toy electric train tracks, he works methodically with a crow quill pen because it produces a large variety of thin and thick lines...
...display at Winthrop House, the exhibit opening today in the Germanic Museum is the first general cooperative effort by Harvard's undergraduate painters. They have finally decided to make their presence known, and give fame and fortune a chance. It gets pretty tiresome daubing away in a lonely attic unapplauded...
...wandering gallerygoers, U. S. Indian art looked as disunited and jumbly as a Victorian attic. Reasons: 1) the widely scattered Redskin tribal groups of North America had very little communication with each other before the white man came; 2) U. S. Indian culture has been blown this way & that by the encroachment of white civilization. Though U. S. Indians made pottery, peace pipes, masks, sculpture and baskets before Columbus' day, many of their most typical later arts were based on materials (beadwork, silver, etc.) introduced by white settlers...
...tales are much like those of Lord Dunsany (Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens). But his taste is less for the dewy groves of dancing pixies than for the chasms and black alleyways where fiends hang out. Nor is this the madness of James Thurber (The Owl in the Attic, Fables for Our Time), smelling of neurosis, manic depression and similar 20th-Century ills. Collier offers a fuller-blooded evil often conjured up with appropriate 17th-Century English suggesting the grimmer scenes of King Lear. From that play he plucked titles for two former books: Defy the Foul Fiend...
Jacketed in speckled Biedermeier wallpaper, Will You Many Me? is a little bundle of letters of proposal rifled from the dim attic of the past. It makes a sentimental hour's reading less jumbled and so more satisfying than M. Lincoln Schuster's recent 563-page Treasury of the World's Great Letters. Editor Frau Scheu-Riesz groups her letters according to the architectural styles of their periods (Baroque, Rococo, Colonial, etc.) which she thinks they mirror. Scraps from the bundle...