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semi-abstract temperas with such titles as Beatitudes, Cybernetics and Everyman...
...Cushions & Big Lights. Washington cab drivers are likely to refer to the museum as "the Mellon gallery," which is just what its founder, Financier Andrew Mellon, hoped to avoid. He wanted to build no personal monument but a palace for Everyman, which would be a lasting glory to the nation. The neoclassic building cost Mellon $15 million, is as palatial as any structure to be found in the Western Hemisphere. Its central dome was modeled on the Pantheon in Rome. The rotunda and windowless exhibition wings are constructed of over 40 kinds and shades of marble, from "Istrian Nuage" (Italy...
...miraculous discovery that it is easier to push a stool toward a piano than it is to push a piano toward a stool, his look of ecstatic appreciation at a single sour musical note produced all by himself. In such endless re-enactment of simple and simple-minded truth, everyman could forget his own absurdity and laugh instead at Crock...
NAPOLEON'S LETTERS (312 pp.)-Translated and Edited by J. M. Thompson-Everyman's Library...
...Trades. The 300 unedited letters in the Everyman collection, the first new edition in two decades, are the latest attempt to distill "a potent bottle" out of the "great lake of correspondence." They show a mind that always went straight to the point without swerving a hair's breadth and never doubted that it was wise enough to teach law to lawyers, science to scientists, and religion to Popes. Most of the letters have a single idea at the back of them-to impress on the recipients the notion that they are living in an age dominated...