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...fair words on both sides did not mean that the millennium had come in Steel-or in the rest of U.S. industry. But the fair words were by no means all guff. U.S. management and labor have been moving, through stormy days, toward a very much closer relationship. For some years, the main source of trouble has been the U.S. Government's role in the labor-management field. The steel strike was the most disastrous example to date of how the alliance between labor and Government can mess up collective bargaining. Phil Murray was riding high last week...
Perfect Love? A German art historian named Wilhelm Fränger is the latest to have a try at unraveling the tangle of Bosch's imagery. In a book recently published, The Millennium of Hieronymus Bosch (University of Chicago Press; $10), he sets forth an original conclusion: Bosch was not an orthodox Christian with a morbid interest in sins of the flesh, but a heretic, whose odd images are "cryptograms" and "hieroglyphs" understandable only to other initiates of his cult...
...Adamite Family. Fränger has devoted his book, the first volume of a series, to an explanation of the famous triptych which Bosch called The Millennium, more often known as The Garden of Early Delights. Its three panels represent, respectively, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, a panorama of naked and untrammeled figures disporting themselves in the world outside, and a scene of dark punishment in Hell. Most critics hold this to be a logical sequence of Creation, worldly pleasure and eternal punishment. Fränger disagrees. He believes that Bosch's naked figures represent...
Ancient Rome had a population of 1,000,000. In 546 Totila the Goth sacked the capital; for 40 days it had no inhabitants at all, according to the historian Gregorovius. Almost a millennium later, in 1527 after plunder and rapine by Charles V's troops, Rome's population stood at 32,000. During the past century Rome grew from 201,161 in 1862 to 1,173,034 in 1936. Last week the capital's first census in 15 years found that it is growing almost as fast as Los Angeles, now has 1,600,011 people...