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Larry Rivers, 37, is a wiry, slightly hipsterish man, who finds it almost impossible to sit still for long. "I get bored easily," says he, but the boredom has paid off handsomely. To keep himself interested, he has never stopped experimenting, and his paintings have managed to arouse the admiration of figurative and abstract partisans alike. They command up to $15,000, and in Manhattan hang in the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney and the Metropolitan. Last week 15 of his latest paintings were on view at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, proving that the restless Rivers just keeps...
Push and Pull. Romance faded but inspiration remained. Almost immediately, he began to attract attention. He became the pupil of Hans Hofmann, dean of the uninhibited "push and pull" technique. But no sooner was Rivers safely launched as a promising abstract expressionist than boredom...
...William James wrote "The Moral Equivalent of War," arguing that "a permanently peaceful economy cannot be a simple pleasure economy." Now it is called "the era of high-consumption" or "the affluent society," but the lesson's the same. Another way to express it is "a moral escape from boredom." Young men want that escape. In 1910, writing for an America not yet a world power, James prescribed manual labor in the U.S.-"fishing fleets in December... road-building and tunnel-making." That was a great era of economic expansion here. In 1960, young men, if given the chance, could...
...more fortunate journalists--particularly the columnists--can shift from one campaign to the other, getting a basis for comparison (and, of course, saving themselves from the boredom of hearing the same basic speech, watching the same gestures for weeks on end). But a considerable group of journalists become closely associated with just one campaign, marking the struggle for objectivity all the more difficult. As one put it, "The whole show becomes an oblong blur...
Cambridge devotees of Ingmar Bergman will have to wait for The Virgin Spring if it's the artistic manipulation of a new and different situation they're after. For Dreams sheds little light on the already thoroughly essayed subject of mis-matched lovers. Marred by disturbing patches of untimigated boredom, this Bergman import lacks the sparkle of either Smiles of a Summer Night or A Lesson in Love...