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...cool, efficient manager of the modern stripe, Donner is a strong believer in team talk. He rarely makes a decision without extensive consultation with G.M.'s experts, shares responsibility to a unique degree with President John F. Gordon, a crack production man. By staying in the background and avoiding public controversy, Donner has also toned down G.M.'s earlier reputation for corporate arrogance...
...Mitropoulos gave himself to music with the dedication of a monk (which he once intended to be), lived frugally, gave away his money to students as his hero St. Francis of Assisi did, became an apostle of modern composers. On the podium he danced, shook his fringed pate, conducting without a score from an awesome memory. Off the podium he read philosophy, the Greek dramatists, but for diversion Mitropoulos climbed mountains...
Andre Malraux is a great intellectual speculator. He floats, promotes and trades in ideas, and, thanks to his vast mental capital, never goes broke. More than a decade ago, in Psychology of Art, later rewritten as The Voices of Silence, Malraux launched the notion of the "Museum Without Walls." Among other things, this imaginary museum was a device for seeing the art of all ages out of context. With its equidistant tolerance toward previous cultures, and its technical means (reproductions, photographs) to appropriate the art objects of the past, the 20th century, according to Malraux, was the first civilization capable...
...book is crammed with enough handsome illustrations and recondite art allusions to supply the Uffizi plus the Louvre. It is also argued with cool logic as Malraux delves into the epochs without museums, when art glorified religion. The metamorphosis of the gods, as Malraux describes it, was a little like the story of the Ten Little Indians. First they were sacred, then divine, then human, and then they were gone. This all took place between the creation of the Sphinx and the birth of Botticelli's Venus. The Egyptians could not know Aristotle, but he knew the secret...
Past studies have examined either the attitudes of individual students, apart from the influence of their college environment; or the social structure of the college, without reference to its effect on student attitudes...