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Nothing was safe from it, for art and craftsmanship had been declared equal. Architects designed chinaware and brooches; some painters even gave up their canvases ("Down with these useless objects") to potter around with posters and fancy screens. When Toulouse-Lautrec dined at the home of the Belgian architect Henry van de Velde, he found that the food had been chosen for its color. It was characteristic of the age that Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray had one favorite novel bound in nine different ways to suit his changing moods...
...GAMBLIN' MAN (333 pp.)-Marl Sandoz-Clarkson N. Potter...
...paradox is repeated in Candidates 1960 (Basic Books; $4.95), a spotty collection of sketches by Washington correspondents, edited by CBS News Analyst Eric Sevareid. The Dick Nixons portrayed by the Baltimore Sun's Philip Potter (anti) and the New York Daily News's Frank Holeman (pro) are different people. Potter's Nixon: "He has all the ambivalence of a college debater, who can make as forceful an argument on one side as on the other." Holeman: "He has the training, brains, and courage to be a good Republican President. He has the heart and faith...
Last week the Supreme Court unanimously upheld their refusal. The licensing statutes, ruled the court, are as unconstitutional as the Alabama membership-list-law requirement struck down in 1958. Freedom of association, said Justice Potter Stewart for the court, is protected "not only against heavy-handed frontal attack, but also from being stifled by more subtle governmental interference...
Some 1,200 undergraduates packed the debating chamber of the Oxford University Union Society to hear the titans. The resolution before the group: "That this house holds America responsible for spreading vulgarity in Western society." Chief spokesman for the affirmative: Britain's wily Gamesman Stephen Potter. Voice of the negative: rotund, orotund Orson Welles, not a whit shaken by his introduction as "the best film director-actor in the world today.'' Welles readily agreed that stereotyped U.S. culture is not easily defended: "This mass reduction of human dignity makes me sick." But he hastened to absolve...