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                                                                "The Catcher in the Rye"
                                                                            By J.D. Salinger

Holden, being in the city, drinks a lot of alcohol and feels loneliness. He thinks about the Museum of Natural History, which he often visited as a child. He contrasts his evolving life with the statues of Eskimos in a diorama. The boy considers so because of his brother's death, Allie. Eventually, he sneaks into his parents' apartment while they are out. There Holden visits his younger sister,Phoebe, the only person with whom he seems to be able to communicate. The boy shares a fantasy he has been thinking about. He pictures himself as the sole guardian of a group of children running and playing in a huge rye field on the edge of a cliff. His job is to catch the children if, in their abandon, they come close to falling off the brink, to be a "catcher in the rye." Because of this misinterpretation, Holden believes that to be a "catcher in the rye" means to save children from losing their innocence.

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The article published on the website of the newspaper "The Guardian" on February 21, 2013 is headlined "Who'd steal an empty, pretentious Dalí?" by Jonathan Jones. The article reports at the dangerous power of celebrity, so well understood by the Spanish artist, may be behind a fashion PR's alleged theft.
Speaking of this situation it is necessary to note a fashion PR has been arrested in New York, accused of stealing a Dalí from an Upper East Side gallery.
It’s important to point out that Dalí was the first artist who understood the fatal power of celebrity in modern life. As early as the 1930s, he realised he could be famous and glamorous and rich by playing the media game like the outrageous character he was. 
Analyzing this situation it is necessary to emphasize that for Dalí really was interesting, unlike some of today's celebrity artists who act more like brilliant businessmen than bohemian rebels.
Giving appraisal of the situation it’s necessary to point out that his macabre humour and uninhibited exploration of his darkest fantasies and most embarrassing pleasures made him, for a while, the star of surrealism.
It’s important to point out that It wasn't enough to be feted by the avant garde. Dalí's art, always shiny and over the top, became less and less intense until it turned into kitsch.
The article draws a conclusion that Salvador Dalí did create powerful images of dream life before he turned himself into a living pantomime.
As for me, I would like to say it's a difficult question if Dali's talent ultimately make his decadence forgivable or whether we should remember the young dynamo or the old fraud. Some day we may ask the same of Damien Hirst, whose recent work displays a bizarre resemblance to Dalí at his most hollow.

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                                                                "The Catcher in the Rye"
                                                                            By J.D. Salinger

Holden telephones Sally Hayes, a familiar date, and agrees to meet her in the afternoon to go to a play. Meanwhile, Holden leaves the hotel, checks his luggage at Grand Central Station, and has a late breakfast. He meets two nuns, one an English teacher, with whom he discusses Romeo and Juliet. Holden shops for a special record for his 10-year-old sister, Phoebe. He spots a small boy singing "If a body catch a body coming through the rye", which somehow makes him feel less depressed. After seeing the play with Sally featuring Broadway stars Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, the two go skating at Radio City, and while drinking Coke, Holden impulsively invites Sally to run away with him to the wilderness. She declines and her response deflates Holden's mood, that's why he is rude to the girl. The boy regrets it immediately, and Sally storms off as Holden follows, pleading with her to accept his apology. Finally, Holden gives up and leaves her there, sees the Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall, endures a movie, and gets very drunk. Then Holden has been worried about the ducks in the lagoon at Central Park. He tries to find them but only manages to break Phoebe's record in the process. Exhausted physically and mentally, he heads home to see his sister.

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The article published on the website of the newspaper "The Guardian" on February  19, 2013 is headlined "Old master paintings worth £100m given to Britain – with strings attached" by Charlotte Higgins. The article reports at 57 works are given to Britain and they must remain free to view and never be sold, according to wishes of the collector who amassed these pictures, art historian Sir Denis Mahon, who died in 2011, aged 100.

Speaking of this situation it is necessary to note the conditions seem especially resonant now, as museums suffer funding cuts and charging for admission is again being reluctantly considered in some quarters.

The author writes that according to Stephen Deuchar, chief executive of the Art Fund, the conditions "keep up the pressure for governments to do the right thing by museums and galleries".

It’s important to point out that Mahon left 57 works to the Art Fund with the arrangement that they should be on long-term loan to a selection of British galleries: eight to the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, 25 to the National Gallery in London, 12 to the Ashmolean in Oxford, six to the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge, five to the Birmingham Art Gallery and one to Temple Newsam House in Leeds.

Analyzing this situation it is necessary to emphasize that the final stage of his bequest is now complete, with the formal transference of the 57 works' ownership to the various museums and regular visitors to the National Gallery in London will recognise, for example, Guido Reni's Rape of Europa, with the mythical heroine, clad in saffron and fuchsia, being borne away over the waves on the back of Zeus, disguised as a bull – but they are now accompanied by smart new signs, announcing "new acquisition".

Giving appraisal of the situation it’s necessary to point out that Deuchar emphasised the political commitment of Mahon, who "will be remembered as a robust and ruthless arts lobbyist, campaigning for, above all else, free admission to national museums and galleries and against the selling of collections".

The author writes that Christopher Brown, the director of the Ashmolean Museum, remembered a man of exceptional erudition.

The article draws a conclusion that Sir Denis Mahon's public-spirited desire to have his collection end up in the public realm was "completely free of vanity"and he was supremely uninterested in having his "name inscribed on a particular room" and was happy that his collection should be dispersed around Britain.

As for me, I admire so smart and open people, like Sir Denis Mahon, who collect the arts for the benefit of their people. I think this man is a good example of a person who really loves and respects the culture and history of his country!!!

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"The Catcher in the Rye"

By J.D. Salinger

Seventeen-year-old Holden Caulfild has just returned from a fencing meeting in New York City, which was a disaster. Furthermore, he has been kicked out of Pencey for fluking four subjects. After the boy leaves it for a Christmas break, he won't return. Holden doesn't think much of Pency, a boy's school full of phonies and crooks, but he's a little bothered about leaving without "a feeling some kind of a good-by". Watching the football game on Thomsen Hill at Pency Prep, he finally gets this sensation by remembering a day when he and couple of Pencey boys were throwing a football. The memory is vivid enough to give Holden some kind of true feeling for the place. As soon as this happens, he's off and running across the road to see his history teacher one last time. Some time later Holden takes a train to New York, because the boy does not want to return to his family and instead checks into the dilapidated Edmond Hotel.There he spends an evening dancing with three tourist girls and has a clumsy encounter with a prostitute.

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The article published on the website of the newspaper "The Guardian" on February 15, 2013 is headlined "Picasso in Paris: raw works of genius from the artist as a young man" by Jonathan Jones. The article reports at Pablo Picasso's wonderful paintings at the Courtauld Gallery, which help to learn more about  his creative style and life in general.

At first, the auther tells us about a small but incendiary exhibition, puting us side by side with a gifted wild boy in his 20th year, through a formidable array of superb paintings lent by public and private collections that includes Picasso's Child With a Dove.

Speaking of his works it is necessary to note that Picasso's art, with its thick (yet always delicate, always correct) black outlines and piquant palette of turquoise blues, volcanic reds and sunflower yellows, takes shape in front of us at this exhibition.The first paintings here take Toulouse-Lautrec's themes and shake them violently to produce a febrile, intense, primitive remix of the dying 19th-century's art.

It's an interesting fact that an appetite for the grotesque would pervade Picasso's entire career, from the unnerving clown face of Bibi la Purée, lent to this exhibition by the National Gallery, to his last self-portrait in 1972.

Giving appraisal of the paintings Dwarf-Dancer and Harlequin it’s necessary to point out that the people of Montmartre are transfigured into eternal symbols of loneliness and longing in these great urban paintings.

The exhibition ends with personal tragedy and artistic triumph, which is connected with his friend,Carles Casagemas. It is illustrated in the two last paintings in the exhibition:  The Burial of Casagemas and  Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

The article draws a conclusion that the painting, Casagemas On His Deathbed, the young man's features are hollowed and purified by death. Picasso has got the blues – and the blue period has begun.

As for me, I think that art plays a very big role in our life. It helps us to learn more about our history, culture and outstanding people. What is more, art gives a great opportunity to enrich our inner world.

February 14

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The Etching

(Hugh Seymour Walpole)

1. Overbearing Frances and shy, clumsy Billy had been married for 15 years or more. 2.They hadn't children. 3.One November afternoon the husband had a very bad headache, that's why the man obttained leave from his work.4. When Billy had walked a little way his headache was very much better.5. As the man liked different museums and shops, he decided to visit some of them, which were situated nearby his job.6. Suddenly, in one shop the husband noticed a cheap etching, that's why he decided bought it.7. When Billy came home Frances didn't appreciate a purchase.8. She decided the man had paid a big sum for it, the woman was angry.9. So, it was a critical moment in their relationships.10. They querraled a lot, but Billy continued to take a great on etchings more and more.11. That fact irritated Frances.12. That's why one day the woman had broken Billy's expensive etching.13.After that incident the man left home and never came back.14.Bill realized he had nener loved Frances, while on the oher hand the woman understood she loved him very much. 

Pleasure Reading

Year I Term I - Robert Louis Stevenson "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"

Year I Term II - Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"

Year II Term III - Stephen King "The Mist"

Year II Term IV- John Galsworthy "In Chancery"
Year III Term V - Henry Graham Greene "Our Man in Havana"

Year III Term VI - Jerome David Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"