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...example, critic Barbara Rose put on a show in New York of young artists she thinks may be major figures in the '80s and the one common denominator of this exhibition was that most of the artists were working in a much more painterly, more personal abstract mode...
Partisan Review editors eagerly--if briefly--embraced this new literary mode from 1934 to 1936, a total of nine issues. With avant-garde literature editors combined an adjoining interest in leftist politics; however, this marriage of art and politics was doomed to be both short-lived and turbulent, for it ultimately imposed unacceptable strictures upon the artist's and writer's creative freedom. As James T. Farrell,' author of the Studs Lonigan trilogy and a contributor to the magazine later said, the intellectuals' alliance with Stalinism amounted to an "artist straitjacket...
...nation, in the process of its revolutionary development, cleansed itself of the filth of despotism and shed off an alien culture and mode of thought." So says the remarkable 175-article constitution that the Iranians approved last week by a claimed margin of more than 99%. Instead of any alien mode of thought, the new constitution gives all power to a Faqih, or supreme religious figure-that is, Khomeini. This Faqih is supposed to be "respected by the majority of the people as their undisputed leader," but there is no provision for his being elected. While filling this lifetime post...
Turning 83, famed American Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson proved to be as vivace as the music he has written for every mode from concert hall to films over half a century. Tendered a birthday party at Brentano's bookstore in Manhattan, Thomson ignored the limousine that had been sent to fetch him from his apartment in the fin de siècle Chelsea Hotel and marched to the festivities on his own. He also chose stairs instead of an elevator and a hard chair rather than a soft one, but he did consent to pose at the piano with...
...year to stock in its waters. Whites fear that Chippewa gill netters will clean out the trout and cohos, and destroy the state's $350 million-a-year sport-fishing industry. Myrl Keller, a state fish biologist, calls the Indians' use of the nets a "malicious, wasteful mode of fishing...