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Most of his other instructors were committed to abstraction, but Stuempfig, says Chumley, quickly saw that realism "was the right kind of thing for me." Chumley's subject matter is primarily rural ("It's where I grew up. It's my natural element"), and though his paintings seem simple, they are actually enormously complex. He works in tempera, "a slow medium," goes back to his subject day after day, adding new impressions, perfecting the composition, unlocking fresh secrets...
...bespeaks an attitude that only the scholar is deserving, or even capable, of special instruction. Thus the Department would seem to be seeking out an intellectual elite, ignoring the majority of students, by and large those same non-dogmatically academic students whom Dean Bender sought as a vital element contributing to the College...
Scholasticism is, of course, an essential conservative and preservative factor in society, but if a society continues to place most of its emphasis on scholastic elements it will inevitably head for stagnation. The creative element cannot be allowed to languish. It seems very significant that the English Department's announcement follows hard on the heels of the discontinuation of Fine Arts 16, Harvard's only creative painting course...
Under Dirkson's leadership, the magazine said, "Republican Senators leave little impact on legislation or the national course and purpose." A key element in this failure, according to Advance, is the virtual non-existence of professional research and planning personnel to develop Republican alternatives to Democratic legislation rather than simply opposing...
...world in which "there is only one difference between human beings-that between torturers and tortured." Again there is the relish in operating on the reader without anesthetic. But in The Quarry, Duerrenmatt, who studied philosophy before he became a writer, seems to have added a new spiritual element of hope. A man's dogged, defenseless, hopeless commitment to the pursuit of justice-even, like Barlach's, to the point of sacrificing his own life-may bring a savior named Gulliver to the rescue...