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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Keeping Time. As usual, to make a show of debate, delegates were allowed to nitpick a few details. Thus a Moscow bank clerk complained that the Ministry of Culture was hoarding quantities of furniture, including 224 clocks. Then delegates unanimously approved both the budget and the 1960 plan. After all, everything was subject to change anyway: last year's plan was changed 37 times, and the chief planner himself was replaced...
...glance at the Sarah Lawrence handbook reveals a wealth of official committees and organizations in addition to the Student Council and the usual extracurricular clubs. An adviser-advisee committee, a curriculum committee, and a scholarship committee seem to provide ample justification for the claim that Sarah Lawrence students contribute to policies which at other schools remain the exclusive province of the administration...
According to the girls, dates are not a prestige factor as they are at other colleges. To them, Sarah Lawrence is a "status-less society," in that a girl cannot acquire acclaim through the usual methods of dates and grades. The only criterion for prestige is individual brilliance, whether intellectual or artistic, and this becomes the ideal to which most aspire, not for prestige but for personal satisfaction...
...reports were unimpressively written and badly argued, but the critical and disturbing problem is their inability to face the real issues instead of discussing personal concerns. Most students realize that parietal hours are not very well adapted to dating habits. But few, except students, are concerned with this. As usual, a Council committee has missed the point...
Unfortunately, the show has many distressing disappointments. Calder, the grand Yankee sculptor whose works have for so long been characterized by their steady high quality, exhibits three mobiles but only one of them displays any of Calder's usual skill. The other two move only under strong provocation (I had to fan them with my notebook close by before they deigned to revolve) and when they finally do go into orbit, the objects don't describe a flexible and communicative arc in space...