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...themselves. In Uhuru, Africans are portrayed as civilized on the surface but ready at the first opportunity to revert to savagery. Ruark's sympathies are all with the white settlers. On page after page, the whites denounce "nigs," "coons," "wogs" and even "Chinks" until the vituperation becomes a bore...
...time he had 700 men working for him, but almost every piece bore his personal touch-an intuitive mastery that used the most gaudy and expensive materials in the world and turned them into meticulous little masterpieces...
...high-the lure is freedom in teaching. Specializing in one subject, Parker's teachers get a chance to cover it at many levels. Barr McCutcheon teaches algebra to fifth-graders and transfinite arithmetic to seniors, for example, and McCutcheon need not bother with standard math texts-"a bore." "For an educator, this is heaven," says Principal Thomas, who notes that 36 teachers applied for a single vacancy in the history department this spring...
Focus on the Foot. Until experts cleaned off the two centuries of grime that covered it, the Tiepolo bore the sinister title of Time Carrying Off Beauty. But on close examination, museum officials decided, as museum officials will, that some earlier expert had goofed. True enough, the old bearded figure with his wings, his chariot and scythe, was certainly Time; and even Beauty, bejeweled and almost nude, seemed to be true to tradition. But why, asked the museum, did the whole painting revolve around the woman's right leg, with the foot resting on a globe? She herself points...
...Pogo, Walt Kelly's pseudo-sophisticated comic strip, spoke a kind of Pig-Russian and bore an unmistakable resemblance to Nikita Khrushchev. He even talked like Khrushchev. "You forget prominent Russian proverb!" he confided to his companion, a bearded, cigar-smoking goat with a remarkable resemblance to Fidel Castro: "The shortage will be divided among the peasants." The goat broke out lunch-cigars and sugar ("One thing my country got like the dickens! Is sugar! y tabacos!")-and the two settled down to a dialectical argument in dialect...