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Remembering the Future. Brooks is a sage man who does better than most in trying to articulate the sometimes manic-expressive business of abstract art. Of the mysterious moment when paint leaves the brush and becomes painting, he says: "The crucial thing for a painter is getting to the point where he can maintain some sort of pictorial balance between alertness and dumbness, where he is thinking but it can't be classified as thinking...
...Seasons, by Robert Bolt, probes the persistent dilemma of private conscience v. public duty and shows how Sir Thomas More, a sage, wit and Christian martyr, resolved...
Before Greece and North Korea, before Hungary or the Berlin Wall, this sort of cumulative indictment might have evoked sage nods and won its author a reputation for fearless thinking. But to a cold war-scarred world, a man who cannot tell the difference between Russia and the U.S. seems too unhinged to be tellingly cogent on any other topic. As criticism, it seems a bit like the officer who stops in the midst of battle to dress down a soldier for failing to shave...
...amassed an unbelievable rushing average of 15.4 yards per carry; quarterback Frederic L. Ballard can pass that buck like no one else in the business; fullback Chollie Bevard, in Russin's own words, will always "catch you off guard"; and linemen Robert "Speed" Gordon, Richard "King" Cotton, Raymond "The Sage" Sokolov, Andrew "The Rock" Weil and Lee "Flash" Auspitz are just, well, Some Of The Greats...
...Henri Matisse. The Perls Galleries represent Calder and Archipenko, and they do a reputable business in "painters of the Picasso generation" like Braque, Modigliani, Soutine and Utrillo. Catherine Viviano on East 57th Street is strong on modern Italians like Afro and Cremonini, but she also represents the surrealist Kay Sage and the estate of Max Beckmann...