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...Weimar, Barcelona, Vienna. Paris was uniquely hospitable to the avantgarde. But it had no monopoly on newness. The exhibition of 164 paintings and graphics that opened last week at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art is a sharp reminder of that fact. Organized under the title "German and Austrian Expressionism: Art in a Turbulent Era" by Art Historian Peter Selz, it does real justice to a neglected area...
...Brien talked in a recent Real Paper feature of the dreaming he did in Vietnam to keep his mind off the war. His personal daydream was to leave the war and live in a chalet in the Austrian mountains, and read. But, he said of the dilemma that caught him between fighting in a war that was morally wrong and the obligation he felt to his country and to his middle-western, middle-class parents: "My single philosophical tenet is that you can't outrun your sense of obligation--even in imagination. It's always there...
...pulled off his illusory act with remarkable ease. As part of his sales pitch, he circulated a brochure describing the imaginary Fox as the son of a well-known Austrian artist whose "guidance and expert tutelage was [the son's] inspiration." Fox portraits were always done from photographs, and sold as such. After a few well-placed sales, Fox's reputation spread by word of mouth. Said he: "I learned a way of being a good salesman. I don't steal from the poor." He even won some high praise. Ethel Kennedy wrote to say that...
Bruno Kreisky, Austrian Chancellor, describing his visits to Moscow and Warsaw: "I insist on a working schedule only. After 30 years in politics, I know what steelworks look like and how china is made...
DIED. Philip Sporn, 81, former president of the American Electric Power Co., once the world's largest private producer of electric power; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Austrian-born, "Mr. Public Utility" joined the forerunner of AEP in 1920, became its chief engineer in 1933 and president in 1947. By producing power at lower cost, the seven-state utility network encouraged the widespread use of electricity and helped industrialize the Ohio Valley...