Mr. and Mrs. William M. Kunstler requested the pleasure of the Chicago Seven's company at a birthday party in honor of Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale at their home, West Street, Mamaroneck, N.Y. This highlight of the social season gathered the "conspirators" together (with the exception of Tom Hayden, who was busy in San Diego making his own plans for the 1972 Republican National Convention) for the first time since their trial ended early in 1970. Draft beer, chips and pretzels were served, and 35-year-old Bobby was presented with a dark blue sweater. After blowing out the seven conspiratorial candles on his chocolate-frosted cake, the birthday boy toasted "all revolutionaries and political prisoners everywhere."

Women should be revolting, Liberator Germaine Greer told an audience at Montreal's McGill University. But their revolt should be nonviolent: "I would never presume to exhort the small band of really dedicated women who are prepared to die to go into the streets and be killed, because we need them to work among their sisters." The Germaine strategy for women is rather "to refuse to support the consumer-based economy--to stop buying or cut way back in their spending."

U.S. Oilionaire J. Paul Getty shook up the British art establishment last June with his acquisition at auction of Titian's The Death of Actaeon for about $4,200,000. Just the year before, New York City's Metropolitan Museum had walked off with another British-owned masterpiece, Velasquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, for a record $5,544,000. Officials of the National Gallery and others raised a din, acting as if those rich Americans would soon leave Britons nothing to look at but the telly. At last, with considerable reluctance, the government blocked the removal of the Titian from Britain (Getty wanted to put the masterpiece in his California museum) and has now agreed to ante up $915,600 to help meet the auction price, provided the National Gallery lays out $2,400,000, two other funds kick in $360,000, and the general public feels it is worth $555,600 in contributions to keep The Death of Actaeon on the sceptered isle.

"A great man is one sentence," declared Clare Boothe Luce in a speech to the American Gas Association convention in Boston. "History has no time for more than one sentence, and it is always a sentence that has an active verb." Dwight Eisenhower's sentence: "He led the victorious armies of the alliance in the greatest war in history." John F. Kennedy's: "He challenged the might of the Soviet Union in the Western Hemisphere and won--short of war." Richard Nixon, she thinks, "may be in the process of writing his one sentence now. It will not be on economics, but that 'He opened China to the modern world.' "

Looking back on his politically partisan days in the '30s, when he served as a Loyalist in the Spanish Civil War and lashed out at Fascism in his poetry, English-born U.S. Poet Wystan H. Auden, 64, confessed to a New York Times reporter that he is embarrassed. "What embarrasses me is the question, 'Who benefited?' And the answer is me. The poems didn't change one thing about the war. As a poet--not as a citizen--there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption," said Auden. "When it's corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear, and this leads to violence."

In two of the more notable role switches since Jekyll played Hyde, Barry Goldwater attacked the U.S. auto industry while Ralph Nader laced into the young. "American cars are made shoddily," Goldwater told the National Office Products Association. "The doors don't work. The tires don't go beyond 10,000 miles. The brakes don't work." As for the young, complained Nader in Redbook magazine, they brag about their idealism and militancy, "but the average student spends $250 a year on soft drinks and tobacco and movies. If they would contribute only $3 per student per year, they could recruit the toughest, finest lawyers to begin dealing with pollution and corruption. Being stoned on marijuana isn't very different from being stoned on gin. We need a new spartan ethic in this country."

Chess and football may seem worlds apart. But the match in Buenos Aires between Grand Masters Bobby Fischer of the U.S. and Tigran Petrosian of the U.S.S.R. has at least two appurtenances of the contact sport: ticket scalping and casualty. Tickets for the matches--two to a customer--are bringing almost triple the box office price of 60-c-. And last week Petrosian, down 21 to 41, had to have the eighth game postponed because of "low blood pressure."

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