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...least bathetic men who has ever lived. He cannot tolerate the placid idiocy and demagogic pollutants of American society. He criticizes, as an American citizen, the corruption of monotone imaginations. He follows an austerely classical sense of art as the discipline of craft. His credo is essentially that of da Vinci: "The only liberty is through discipline." But he is saved from prodigiously sterile, mechanical retrogression by the capriciousness of his intellect...
Spider loved grease. When he was a fourth-grader at M.K.E.S. he was the first kid in his class to wear his hair in a DA. and last Saturday- 11 years later- he figured he could grease up as well as anyone else on the Harvard campus...
...High Dam at Aswan. Though several museums wanted it, the Met won by promising to build a special climate-controlled building to protect it from the rigors of U.S. weather. The costliest gift is the private collection of Investment Banker Robert Lehman, which includes masterpieces by Botticelli, Da Vinci and Rembrandt and has an estimated value of over $100 million. The late Bobby Lehman, former board chairman of the Met, willed his collection to the museum on condition that it would be kept together and displayed in a setting similar to the one it enjoyed in his elegant Manhattan town...
Minnie's Boys does not present the birth of stars, merely the birth pangs of stars. It is a little like watching a boy finger-painting and then brushing a few crude daubs on a canvas, after which these scenes are assembled in a show called Mama da Vinci's Boy Leon. Few people are likely to want to see the ordeal of apprenticeship onstage, the step-by-step trial of talent, and the stumble-by-stumble inevitability of error. In Minnie's Boys that is pretty much what the audience is condemned to observe. Only once...
...numbers don't matter. Marines back from the war explain that the U.S. has built massive fortified bastions at places like Cam Ran Bay and Da Nang. They don't intend to leave. The strategy is to pull all of the American troops back behind the battlements and cease most of the American ground attacks. "Vietnamization" means putting a buffer of South Vietnamese troops between the attacking NLF and the Americans in order to cut American casualties...