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...many paintings are unforgettably good that it is hard to single out the best. I would certainly include among my favorites the beautiful contrasts of warm and cool colors in Monet's landscape of Montages, owned by Mr. Palmer. In this work of 1888 typically vibrant color enlivens its unconventional, simple composition. There is the stunning Cezanne of the boy in a red vest that Mr. Rockefeller owns, impressive for its fusion of linear clarity and almost overwhelming structural solidity. I was most intrigued by Picasso's 1916 still life that has none of the poster-like flatness...
...Heidelberg reigned supreme throughout Germany. In philosophy, it boasted Hegel and later Karl Jaspers. In literature, it was a vibrant center of Germany's early 19th century Romantics (Brentano, Eichendorff, Holderlin). In natural sciences, it abounded with men like Bunsen and Kirchhoff, who in 1860 demonstrated spectrum analysis, and Helmholtz, one of the founders of the law of the conservation of energy. In medicine, it was a world-famed mecca, and over the years its professors won seven Nobel Prizes...
...Renato Capecchi, Carlo Cava, Nicola Monti, Giorgio Tadeo; the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs). As an effervescent Rosina, Soprano d'Angelo confirms the promise of her recent Metropolitan opera debut, but the honors here belong to Baritone Capecchi, whose Figaro is vibrant-voiced, flamboyant and believable...
Writer's Lot. There is no chronology to Hear Us, and some of these episodes are merely hinted at. One piece, The Forest Path to the Spring, is masterly-a vibrant nature idyl that is in a direct spiritual descent from Thoreau's Walden. But the bulk of the book displays an occupational disease of 20th century writers : writing about writing and the writer's lot. In Elephant and Colosseum, Lowry tries the bulky device of symbolizing his work as an elephant, presumably patient, massive, mnemonic, with a final trumpeting of glory. In Strange Comfort Afforded...
...Country. This study of Sigmund Freud and his famous patient Elizabeth von Ritter, although somewhat broken in impact, provides an often vibrant blend of theater and truth. The play offers a vital portrait of Freud, ably acted by Steven Hill, and a crucial delineation of Elizabeth, intelligently played by Kim Stanley...