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...cancellations of Literature and Arts A-12: "The Story of Arthur," and Social Analysis 54: "American Society and Public Policy," caused scheduling problems for students...
Sanjeev K. Swami '98 said that his plan for the semester was affected when he discovered Tuesday night that "The Story of Arthur" was not offered this semester...
...wasn't much social criticism in New York Dada, though some of its members were clearly ticked off by the conservative character of the American art world. Picabia even satirized Alfred Stieglitz--whose 291 gallery was the main rallying point for modernist artists like Constantin Brancusi, Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove and Marsden Hartley--as an impotent figure, a camera with a collapsed bellows. Dove himself had a prod at the reviewing establishment in The Critic, 1925--a figure meant to represent Royal Cortissoz, the much feared conservative who had dubbed modernism "Ellis Island art." It is a paper doll...
...Great Presidents get a lot of other people to do great things." This is a tautology, since getting others to do great things--persuading Congress to pass campaign-finance reform, say--is itself doing something great. It is also just plain wrong. The most effective Presidents, as the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. wrote last month in the New York Times Magazine, put their own careers on the line. They "all took risks in pursuit of their ideals. They all provoked intense controversy. They all, except Washington, divided the nation before reuniting it on a new level of understanding...
...years, the top brass at Sears, Roebuck and Co. had nary a clue. Store managers saw nothing amiss in displaying intimate apparel from the same rack fixtures that were used to sell paints. "Sears frustrated and disappointed our customers over a long period of time," says chairman and CEO Arthur Martinez, who arrived in 1992 from Saks Fifth Avenue, where he had been vice chairman, with prayerful instructions to save the Big Store. "If we didn't act quickly, the end game was a slow death for the company...