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...Institute of Modern Art celebrated the opening of its new building on Beacon Street by presenting a retrospective exhibition of the works of George Rouault, an artist whose genuine passion for color affords a channel through which a mystical insight into certain aspects of life can be expressed...
...Madrid buzzed reports of a Cabinet squabble said to have occurred about the time Dictator Franco decided to play put-&-take with his brother-in-law. The then Spanish Foreign Minister, Colonel Juan Beigbeder, was said to have rushed to the Generalissimo in a passion because transit visas through Spain which he had given to Refugee Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot and Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak had not been honored by the immigration police of Brother-in-Law Serrano Suñer's Ministry of Government. "It is an affair of honor!" the Colonel reportedly told the Generalissimo...
...Passion is the moon's cupped light...
...nation must be ready to die for its liberties or it will lose them; 2) political parties are passengers on the same boat-if one wrecks it, all will go down; 3) youth needs protection against teachings which weaken the country; 4) liberty deserves to be served with more passion than tyranny...
...some well-established institution, idea or practice . . . is as much entitled to that dissent as his fellow who defends what this scholar condemns. This is one of the hardest lessons for public opinion in a democracy to learn. The persecuting instinct is so deep and so widespread and the passion for uniformity and conformity is so strong that many a missile will continue to be leveled at the devoted head of any scholar who dissents from a prevailing or a popular judgment." And to quote the 1927 Butler once more, "that was sage counsel then and it is sage counsel...