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Some startled readers remembered that the seven critics, on the average, had been considerably less than ecstatic about Merrick's show. But what ho? Beside each name there was a photograph. The seven faces were somewhat unfamiliar. The man pictured beside the name of Howard Taubman bore little resemblance...
Since the fifth century, Chinese art has been guided by the Six Principles of Painting formulated by Hsieh Ho. It is extremely remarkable to the Western viewer that such a philosophy has survived and still serves as a criterion for judging art; the West has no comparable set of principles but has known many. To the Chinese, the endurance of Hsieh Ho's Six Principles is no oddity; the principles provide a general framework within which the artist may work freely. At the same time the principles enable the viewer to approach the individual works with more sensitivity...
...remaining principles of Hsieh Ho include proper usage of the brush, careful depiction of forms, "pleasing" application of color, and transmission and perpetuation of the masters. This sixth principle deeply influenced Chinese painting. Imitation of the great masters tends to become unimaginative repetition. There is no taboo on plagiarism in the East as in the West. The imitator was apt to become less forceful, further from the essential nature of the subject, as a result of his study of the masters. Continuities of style certainly mark Western art, too, but the variations have been more extreme and are not bound...
Dismayed I am, however, that the author found such unrelieved monosyllabic expressions being voiced by Santas, shopkeepers and civilians as "Ooops!" "Oof!" "Ho! Ho! Ho!" "Bah!" and even "Aughh!" I wonder if TIME'S reporter paused long enough in any store to listen for a seasonal "Excuse me, please" or a polysyllabic "I certainly appreciate your waiting, madam!" as I did on more than one occasion...
...intricate mazes are set up so that the tots will never see that there are more than one. Said one hard-working Santa in Boston's Jordan Marsh: 'The important thing in this job is production. You don't have time for waving and all that ho-ho-ho stuff. It just scares the kids away. What they want is to sit on your lap and tell you what they want for Christmas...