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...many-minded Pablo Picasso was whetted by a big, swank show of paintings from the School of Paris at the spacious old Lefevre Galleries off St. James's Square. Eight Picassos of different periods (he has had eight so far: Realist, Toulouse-Lautrec, Blue, Rose, African, Cubistic, Neo-Classical and Surrealistic) were surrounded by canvases by Bauchant, Bonnard, Braque, Dali, Derain, Dufresne, Dufy, La Fresnaye, Leger, Lurçat, Matisse, Miro, Modigliani, Pascin, Redon, Rousseau, Rouault, Segonzac, Soutine, Utrillo, Vuillard...
...modern Catholic theology in Europe. There the most influential lay Catholic thinker is a mild-mannered little Frenchman, Jacques Maritain, convert to the faith and professor at the Institut Catholique in Paris. Maritain is a follower of the great medieval doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas. In Neo-Thomism, based upon the monumental Summae of St. Thomas, Maritain sees the unique cure for modern ills. Seeking, like Karl Barth, to rescue civilization from humanism and revive pure Christianity, Neo-Thomism does not "annihilate man before God" (as Barthianism does) but aims with an "integral" attitude to preserve...
...sharpened their wits and aviation pointed the way that U. S. railroads took up streamlining. In 1934, with nearly one-third of the country's Class I roads in bankruptcy, with autos, busses, airlines fast sponging up passenger traffic, the railroads began to come out with so-called "neo-trains," fancy to look at, fancy in performance. First to enter scheduled service was Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's famed "articulated" streamliner, the Zephyr...
...against evergreen shrubs or flowering trees and a dozen leafing birches screened a high brick wall in the background. Contemplative visitors could sun themselves on benches. Some of the exhibitors dropped around with their chisels and took final, finicking chips. Despite some absurdities and a monotonous tendency among neo-archaic stone sculptors to leave their forms looking only partly chewed, able and varied work was on hand from Sculptors William Zorach, Warren Wheelock, Harold Cash, Herbert Ferber, José de Creeft, Chaim Gross, Maurice Glickman, Hy Freilicher, Berta Margoulies, Concetta Scaravaglione...
...PERMANENT CLASS COMMITTEE *Keppel 337 *Hutter 293 *Barnes 262 *Brooks 231 *Weinberger 229 *Griswold 210 Stuart 200 Clothier 188 Damon 169 Sutro 135 Sulloway 128 Ulin 116 Nesmith 115 Daughaday 111 Binger 94 Easton 91 Massik 68 Lourie 63 CLASS DAY COMMITTEE *Kennedy 395 *Lowman 287 *Harkness 260 *Neo 254 *Winter 252 *Pope 214 *Knowlton 207 Munroe 180 Whitman 173 Haseltine 165 Schwartz 135 Cabitor 127 Clark 118 Chace 117 Osgood 110 Marcus 106 Reardon 97 Lit 77 Herby 61 *elected