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...York after 1908 and was for a time a social portraitist before turning to more general figure and street scenes in the '20s and '30s. But Tobey was best known for his "white writing"-visions of abstract space wrought in thousands of strokes by a fine Japanese brush and bearing a more than accidental resemblance to Oriental calligraphy...
Laconic Anticlimax. Her moment of truth with HUAC forms the heart of this slim memoir, Hellman's first-and long-anticipated-public word on her brush with McCarthyism. Two earlier autobiographical volumes, An Unfinished Woman (1969) and Pentimento (1973), ignored this subject. Yet when the crucial scene in Scoundrel Time comes, it is a laconic anticlimax. The committee seems flummoxed by Hellman's strategy. When the chairman asks that her letter be read into the public record, Hellman's lawyers leap to distribute copies to the assembled reporters. Minutes later a voice is heard in the press...
...Brush and Ink: the Heinz Gotze Collection of Japances Art, at the Fogg through June 4. Gotze's aim in assembling the collection he said, was to find examples that would illuminate what is special and different about East Asian art. Indeed, this small but stellar exhibit questions some of the fundamental assumptions of the Western viewer. Condensed to haiku precision, works like "Fly Whisk" perceive a foreign value-system in a familiar reality. The real merges disconcertingly without effort into the imaginary in the writing of "Metaphor for Buddha", or in the shifting space of Kobe Ho Shinno...
...Tudor-style house of Lawyer Gerald Fincke and Wife Pat in Rochester. Carter tries to stay in private homes when campaigning, to save hotel bills and cultivate his grass-roots support. As usual, he opened his New Testament, which he is now reading in Spanish in order to brush up on the language. This night he read Chapter 8 of II Corinthians: "We aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord's sight but also in the sight of men." Only after a few minutes of pondering what he had read did Carter go to sleep...
...south. Local villages have been terrorized by black guerrillas, buildings burned, cars ambushed on lonely roads in broad daylight, buses blown up by mines. Army helicopters hunt guerrillas in scrubland and forested hill country along the frontier, and patrols in brown and green camouflage probe cautiously through the brush, automatic weapons at the ready. To protect themselves, white farmers have installed pushbutton alarm systems that alert police posts in case of attack. Fierce Rhodesian ridgeback dogs roam the grounds, and thick steel mesh covers many windows. Some have even dug sandbagged slit trenches in their yards to provide quick cover...