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Orpheus had apparently looked backward. Kupka's reputation became that of a faceless pioneer, and he seemed not to care. Shortly before his death seven years ago, Kupka received a visit from the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr Jr., who bought a batch of gouaches. "You have to thank her," said Kupka, pointing to his wife. "Without her, all of this would have been burned." Barr turned to Madame Kupka and kissed...
...dispute, but his deep gloom over the Goldwater nomination was by no means an isolated phenomenon. For just as the Senator from Arizona evokes an almost fanatic devotion among his followers, he stirs a feeling of horror among many who disagree with him. To them, he is the backward-looking leader of the new Luddites, enraged at the complexities of modern life and bent on smashing the machinery that has been painstakingly devised over the past 50 years to deal with them. "A group has taken control here," said Henry Cabot Lodge in San Francisco last week, "that doesn...
Fresh Spelling. For all its significance, the new decision was not likely to pack Georgia jury boxes with Negroes. Almost no one down South wants them there, not even some Negro defendants, who seem to suspect that they will surely get unduly harsh justice from Negro jurors leaning over backward to suppress a natural sympathy for their race. Nor does the decision go so far as to order jury service for Negroes. "The test," says Presiding Appeals Court Judge Horace E. Nichols, "is not whether any Negroes are actually on a jury. It is whether they are on the jury...
...ministers filed awkwardly into the palatial reception room overlooking the rapids of the Congo River, then raised their right arms stiffly as they took the oath of. office. Some of them got the phrase backward, but that didn't seem to matter. Premier Moise Tshombe grinned, clapped his new government on the back, and capered with flailing fists in a mad jig down the bright green lawn as his admirers screamed their approval: "Down with Adoula and vive Tshombe." Thus the Congo's fourth Premier in as many years began his rule...
Faulkner also kept himself one of the least public of writers. He rarely gave interviews, and when he did he was frequently gruff and uncooperative. He secluded himself in a classical Southern house that was an almost defiant backward clutch toward a lost way of life. He often refused to answer the phone. When the movie made from Intruder in the Dust was given its world premiere in Oxford, he announced, to the producers' horror, that he would not attend. He finally did appear at the theater only because someone had reached an aunt of his in Memphis...