Word: currents
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Pure Force. In the current show hangs another Washington, which only hints at the figure, usually through quick, strong charcoal lines suggesting an arm, a torso, a head. Even his most realistic canvas, Last Civil War Veteran, hovers on the edge of abstraction, just as the old soldier himself hovers on the edge of death. In all the other paintings, Rivers has already become bored with subject matter. In a painting called United Nations, he uses stenciled letters, suggesting country-identifying name plates, to heighten the contrast of readymade reality and pure imagination. His Buick Painting with...
There are times when Rivers seems more whimsical than profound, but neither he nor the paintings he produces could ever be said to be boring. "If your interest is in features and fingernails," says he of his current phase, "the colors you choose will be subjected to that. But when painting a fingernail no longer interests you, then color itself takes over. There is a subordination of subject matter to a kind of force: the force of a red is what I am more curious about now than delineating a nostril...
...better part of a lifetime, Daniel Schreiber, current head of New York City's Project 43, has been trying to get underprivileged youngsters into college. Indeed, since the conception of the Project in 1955, he has made this his full time work...
Much of the current interest in peace corps was stimulated by Senator Kennedy's campaign proposal late in October. Presumably some sort of legislation in the field will come before Congress next year, but passage may well take more than one session. In this case, the efforts and experience of twenty-five members of the Harvard Class of 1961 could assume considerable importance. A small but operative University program next fall, worthwhile in itself, would also serve as an extremely helpful guide for a much larger Government project...
...ideas and values which serve the student for life. It is clear that he thinks Harvard is less aware of the human aspects of being educated than it could be. And, indirectly, one could tie in much of "Encounters with Learning" with a host of current Harvard issues: expansion in a college where students feel anonymous, the need for a good non-Honors tutorial program, and, above all, the need for recognition that the content of a college education may not be as important as the styles of thought and value that one selects from college teachers...