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...depicting forms by smearing a kind of sticky, slow-drying mud on cloth, rather than using ink and water on silk as Chinese and Japanese masters had done for millenniums. When the Tokyo School of Fine Arts opened in 1887,its American co-founder, the "Boston bonze" Ernest Fenollosa, insisted that it teach only traditional Japanese techniques. But by 1896 most of its students were petitioning to learn oil painting, and a Western department had to be set up; thereafter, it was the most popular part of the school...
...curtain goes up on a new year of opera and symphonic performances across the U.S., is it really about to come down on a tradition that Americans have long considered the epitome of high culture? Ernest Fleischmann, the formidable executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, thinks so. "We must accept that the orchestra as we know it is dead," he declared last May. "It's dead because symphony concerts have become dull and predictable; musicians and audiences are suffering from repetitive routines and formula- type programming; there is an acute shortage of conductors who not only know their scores...
...amendment, introduced by Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) at Kennedy's request, prevents the Federal Communications Commission from granting Murdoch any relief or review of the rule barring common ownership of a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same city...
EVERYBODY knows that it isn't good for the same guy to own all the newspapers and television stations. So Ernest Hollings won some sympathy last week when he said it was "on principle" that he attached to a catchall spending bill a little-noticed provision that may force the sale of two newspapers in a national media group...
Doubts must still linger. A CIA analyst will be part of the K-School research team, and his role is as yet undefined. How will he aid such eminent scholars as Professors Richard Neustadt, Ernest May and Gregory Treverton? Given the inherent tension between a highly secretive, intelligence-gathering branch of the government and a private research institution, the role of this analyst needs to be spelled out so as to prevent abuses of academic freedom that might benefit only...