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...selection of oils and watercolors at Busch-Reisinger this month looks especially good. Feininger's ocean canvases contain all the architecture of his cathedral paintings. Their crispness remains taut and concise without suffering that mechanical rigor mortis which lurked in such abundance in the ranks of the Bauhaus. If this is German art, it is German in the sense that it pursues the kind of gentle lyricism which illuminates the music of Haydn, and in that it follows the path of classical rectitude which soars so in Bach. Happily, these works are devoid of the more histrionic and sentimental aspects...
...Newport's Brenton Reef Lightship last week, wind and fog exacted taut performances from the 12-meter U.S. yachts in the second series of trials for the role of defender in September's battle for the America's Cup. But while Sceptre, the British challenger, nimbly outran its own trial horse (a U.S. 12-meter named Gleam), the U.S. contenders knocked one another off in a bewildering series of form reversals. At week's end only Easterner looked a loser. Still in the running: Skipper Briggs Cunningham's Columbia, Arthur Knapp Jr.'s Weatherly...
Labor Pains. After his visit to the Turkish quarter, Hugh Foot, looking tired and taut, flew to London to confer with Harold Macmillan's Conservative Cabinet, but, more important, to plead with the Labor Party (to which his brothers Michael and Dingle belong) not to rock the boat with an all-out attack on the government's plan. At a meeting of Labor M.P.s, red-haired Barbara Castle, a fiery left-winger, made an impassioned plea for the party to stick by its earlier pledge to allow Cypriots to determine their own future, i.e., allow the Greek Cypriot...
...Taut Ship. It was as lawyer that O'Malley first went to the Dodgers. In 1942, when Larry MacPhail resigned as general manager and went into the Army as a lieutenant colonel, O'Malley was hired as the Dodgers' attorney. He succeeded no less a personage than Wendell Willkie, and he obviously saw more opportunity in baseball than Willkie ever dreamed of. Within a short time, O'Malley was loading up heavily with Dodger stock...
Another problem is the high psychological accident rate. "Women work, men study, families are raised in shifts; too busy people get on each other's too taut nerves in too crowded quarters in too noisy halls. So there are crackups: some lurid ones, strictly for whispering; more strained, silent ones gritted through in the analysts' offices...