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Now this constituted a well-rounded education, the student reflected, as he climbed the stairs of a little gallery on East 57th Street. Classes Tuesday through Thursday, then a weekend. Cocktail parties, getting around, meeting people, exchanging ideas. Then topping it off with a spot of culture like this. The sign read, Paintings, Moorish in Subject, Matisse in Influence. He opened the door.
An attendant fluttered over and came to rest. She appreciated the student's interest. He would find the Maestro's work in the other room. The objects on the tables were bric-a-brac showing the surrealiste motif.
The student thanked her and went in. The first painting was a portrait of a matador. One eye was green and the other was orange. The student turned to the bric-a-brac. There was a woman's show, a brick, and a twisted piece of iron. On a table across the room was a pamphlet, and the student walked over, laying odds that it was one of Gertrude Stein's little jobs. He picked it up and read the title, "Annual Report of the President to the Board of Overseers of Harvard University."
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