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Varied Reception Greets Exhibition

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Amid suits of armour, medieval altarpieces and tapestries, 50 cubist and surrealist works of Paul Klee went on exhibition in the Germanic Museum yesterday. The collection received a varied reception.

Alfonse Fink, a freshman at Cambridge High and Latin School, criticized the modern works. He stated, "My kid brother could do better." When the point was pressed, he admitted, "Maybe he couldn't, but I sure could."

Similarly unimpressed, Charles E. Zeitler '53 commented, "It's crazy!"

All the comments were not so disparaging as the above. Guide U. Saudri '58 said, "His works are beautiful . . . they're exciting and scintillating." Martin Barooshian, a junior at the Boston Museum of Art, felt that Kice's work has a "strange, mystic quality."

William J. Gievis, a student at the Massachusetts School of Art, was cautious in his comment. He said, "I just about think he's crazy . . . some of his stuff is very naive, and yet its mature too."

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