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Your Aug. 22 article on José Ortega y Gasset's description of the evolution of art was read with interest. [But] I am afraid you adopt too much of a defeatist attitude in your last sentence: "It looked as if modern art must be the end of the line...
...orderly, "peaceable" demonstration, protesting the appearance of Communist-tuned Singer Paul Robeson at a picnic ground outside of Peekskill, N. Y. True, the veterans of Westchester County had brought along enough brass bands to drown out a full opera company and enough pickets to keep any traffic from getting through. But there was to be no rough stuff, the leaders promised. Then the veterans, 500 strong, started down the road leading to the picnic grove itself...
Michigan's Representative George Dondero thought he knew the answer to his own question, supplied it from the floor of the House last week. Modern art, he thinks, is not a matter of evolution (as Philosopher Ortega y Gasset contends-TIME, Aug. 22), but of revolution; in short, a Red plot "to destroy the enemy, and we are the enemy. So-called modern...art in our own beloved country contains all the isms of depravity, decadence and destruction...
...Auden, to be sung by soloists and choruses, in various combinations and with a full orchestra. Britten had given the strings comparatively little to do; most of the burden fell on blaring brasses, on rustic horns and bucolic woodwinds. It was rich with unusual effects: while Soprano Frances Yéend sang John Clare's The Driving Boy, the chorus whistled an accompaniment. Even though Britten had barely fussed at all with bridges between song poems, his symphony had a unity of spirit. Fresh, melodic and direct, his Opus 44 seemed to many listeners his best work...
...that double-edged dictum, Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset cuts the ground from under the moderns and anti-moderns alike. Writing with gloomy detachment in the current Partisan Review, Ortega traces the evolution of painting from Giotto to Picasso, describes it as "a unique and simple action with a beginning...