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...investigating committee in 1961 agreed that Bourguiba was making the right moves to solve Tunisia's economic ills, but warned that he might be asking too great sacrifices of his people. After last week's brush with death, Bourguiba may go forward a bit more slowly, and can undoubtedly draw some support from the fact that last month the U.S. finally agreed to grant Tunisia $180 million in economic aid over the next three years...
...talk about was Ricciardi's curly hair. "My own view," wrote Frazier, "is that if U.S. Representative John Blatnik has any feeling for beauty, he will first compliment Mr. Ricciardi on his barber. Then, if he has any investigative zeal, he will inquire how many strokes with the brush Mr. Ricciardi gives those dazzling locks each night." Enraged. Ricciardi consulted his lawyer, who advised: "All he's said is that you have a nice head of hair. You can't sue for that, my friend...
...Seeing, WNDT is so loaded with rewarding material that many people have bought television sets for first time in order not to miss it. In its first three months, New York's Channel 13 has proved itself a 21-in. university teaching everything from Japanese brush painting to elementary Russian...
What Was Neglected. Some of the artists studied in Europe, but the show as a whole has a made-in-U.S.A. quality. The artists recorded cozy villages and awesome mountains, bustling ports and empty plains, the nation at peace and at war with itself. Their brushes could catch a moment in the life of a town, as in L. J. Cranstone's Street, or impose upon an ordinary scene a kind of theatrical grandeur, as in A. Z. Shindler's Cemetery. One English visitor observed that "the country seemed to swarm with painters," and as the artists...
Corot's friend Charles Daubigny bought a boat and used it as a floating studio. He painted scenes along the coasts of France and Holland with brush strokes that became increasingly liquid, in keeping with his subjects. Critics accused him of hastening too much over solid detail, surrendering too much to vague "impressions." Writes Professor Herbert: "It was in this dispute, which revolved around his diminishing the difference between sketch and finished painting, that the battle for impressionism was first engaged...