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Died. Alice Tisdale Hobart, 85, author, who sailed to China to visit a sister in 1908, stayed on to marry an oil-company official and crisscross the land until 1927, when she settled down in the U.S. to spin her impressions into novels, first Oil for the Lamps of China, a 1933 bestseller and 1935 movie, followed by six others (The Innocent Dreamers) centered in Asia and permeated with foreboding of endless strife because of the clash of races and cultures; of cancer; in Oakland, Calif...
...illustrious career on the English stage with two far-out and almost offhand film performances in Morgan! and Blow-Up that suddenly and quite unintentionally projected her before millions of moviegoers as the most potent image of mystery and allure since Greta Garbo made John Gilbert's eyeballs spin like pin wheels...
Intercollegiate championships, Pasarell's style on the court reinforced his playboy image. A flashy but erratic power hitter who depended mainly on the big serve he calls "the bomb" and heavy, top-spin ground strokes, he was sometimes spectacular, but often seemed to lack the concentration necessary for center-court competition. "I've beaten just about everybody in the world," he allowed, "but I've been beaten by just about everybody too." Said his father, a former Puerto Rican men's champion: "In stroking, Charlie doesn't have much to learn...
...enjoys being grandiose. And the stance as mentor carries over to the role of Master. "When you have been Master as long as I have," he muses, "you tend to create a metaphysic about it." For him Eliot House is like a mediaeval orrery where students and tutors spin by in differential sequences like so many planets and constellations. Students take three years, tutors five to seven. "Why do all these men want to come to Harvard?" asks Finley rhetorically. "Ah, because the man won't be lost in the mass. This is what these Eastern things stand...
These are examples of the latest in "minimal" art. The present art scene offers other creations: paintings that are an eye-blinding dazzle of stripes; canvases that are cantilevered from the wall right over the living-room sofa; gadgets that jiggle, wiggle, writhe and spin. And, though it is past its peak, there is pop: an assemblage in which a real lawnmower leans against a painted canvas; Brillo boxes designed to look exactly like Brillo boxes; cartoons blown up to mural size, complete with dialogue balloons and lithographic dots; old bits of crumpled automobiles presented as sculpture; an old Savarin...