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Though the American room was closed for refurbishing, and in a plaster-splashed state of disarray, Molotov got a good look at contemporary American abstractions, the kind of thing condemned in the periodic Soviet blasts at "bourgeois, formalist art." Molotov came to a full halt before a painting called The Flying...
...Curtainers were no longer valid, ordered the men to leave the country as soon as possible. Before they left, the visitors got a quick look around, and did a little shopping. One night Composer Shostakovich slipped quietly into a balcony seat at a Manhattan concert to hear the forbidden "formalist" music of Hungary's late Bela Bartok...
...functionalists whose housing projects looked like "military barracks." Just what, then, should a proper Soviet structure look like? Pravda didn't seem to know much about architecture, but it knew what it didn't like. Western architecture, said Pravda, "has reached a dead end of formalist sophistication and box-style, soulless construction [but] Soviet art is always going forward along the road indicated by the party and the government...
...that Mr. Boyd is ever actually serious. He is at once too sensitive and too self-assured to become earnest in public. His concern with men is not vicarious. It is the concern of a formalist who takes you among men to show you the shapes of their minds, their ideas, their words and how they use them, their manners and how men are revealed therein. Being vigorous and Irish, he walks close beside you, pointing here, there, with nervous, witty gusto. Being excessively sensitive and shy, he hides himself behind a mask of erudite satire whenever...
...Paul's School, Concord, N. H., moves another figure very visible upon the educational horizon - the Rev. Samuel Smith Drury, rector. Thought of by many as a formalist because of his dignified, clerical presence and rather stiff manner in public, Dr. Drury is at heart, and in method, a humanist. He believes in atmosphere. He believes in being "one of the boys"; walks with them; works with them; remembers their first names forever; keeps abreast of their family affairs. His school is noted rather for the stamp of cultured, urbane gentility that it imparts to its graduates, than...