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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...claims to have poisoned Mozart years before. Beethoven reported this unsubstantiated charge in an entry of his conversation book of 1824. More pertinently, Salieri confesses to the envy that breeds malice when a mediocre talent meets a transcendent genius. In editing and reshaping his own text for Broadway, Shaffer makes jealousy a key factor in Salieri's persistent savaging of the hard-pressed Mozart in his attempts to secure court posts and paying pupils...
Even the superficially attractive books have their drawbacks, says Richard Scarry, whose volumes have sold over 80 million copies in 27 languages. "Some are too sophisticated. The illustrations may be good enough for framing. But they really aren't children's books. The text is either too demanding for youngsters or not on their wave length. Children want stories to satisfy their natural curiosity...
...Avant-Garde Art 1914-1939, (Skira-Rizzoli; 223 pages; $85) is a sequel to the author's Modern Art 1884-1914: The Decisive Years. The new work's 75 color reproductions and 270 black-and-white pictures have been chosen to illustrate Daval's brisk chronological text. By dividing his subject into 89 bite-size chapters, he is able to draw fine distinctions among the numerous unruly schools that flourished during those fertile 25 years when such men as Matisse, Picasso, Duchamp, Mird, Dali, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright changed the look and perception...
...tells the story with such mastery of his craft, and such freshness. Like the capitalist he caricatures, he leaves nothing to chance, but leaves one struggling to plum a multi-layered text whose overtones expand and recede in too many directions. His extensive philosophic dialogues over-whelm the characters who engage in them so earnestly (yet so easily...
...Common Law of the United States." But that did not sway many members of the high court, who themselves sit in a courtroom decorated with artists' renderings of the Commandments. "The preeminent purpose," ruled the majority, was "plainly religious," because the document is "undeniably a sacred text" for Jews and Christians...