Word: masterpieceâ
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...cannibalistic) to the art of the past, but above all the sustained intensity of feeling. "Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective" contains good paintings and bad, some so weak that they look like forgeries (but are not), as well as a great many works of art for which the word masterpiece???exiled for the crime of elitism over the past decade?must now be reinstated. It is the largest exhibition of one artist's work that MOMA has ever held, or probably ever will. It contains pieces ranging in size from Guernica, Picasso's 26-ft.-wide mural of protest against...
...museum building?has been greeted with such a flood of superlatives. Ordinarily this would be cause for suspicion; yet, one cannot tour the East Building without sensing that the volume of praise is justified. I.M. Pei has produced, in the fullest sense of that hackneyed but unavoidable word, a masterpiece???a structure born of sustained and highly analytical thought, exquisitely attuned to its site and architectural surroundings, conveying a sense of grand occasion without the slightest trace of pomposity. It restores the sense of craftsmanship, as distinct from routine fabrication, without which major architecture cannot exist...
...light-heavyweight championship to Thomas Loughran (TIME, Oct. 17), chiefly, according to Mr. Williams, because, Mr. McTigue waited until the last rest between rounds to "toss off" a teacup of something. He recalled Rube Wadell, baseball pitcher, who sat over his teacups all one night before his pitching masterpiece???a game against Detroit in which Ty Cobb, first man up, bunted safely, and thereafter no man reached first base. He recalled Golfer J. Douglas Edgar, of England, who preferred steins, which, when available, dropped his score a dozen strokes. He recalled Papyrus, horse, who performed fastest with buckets...
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