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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Ironically, to describe the new ideology of youthful alienation, Gerzon must draw heavily from the works of an older generation. This provides sorry comment on youth's intellectual contribution to its own dissent. Except for a stray quote from Simon and Garfunkel or Janis Ian, he must resort to synopses of Camus and Erikson...
Cave of the Future. The Modern's rival-and less effective-display, called "Spaces," features five rooms each by a different artist. One, by Dan Flavin, is full of relentlessly glowing fluorescent lights; another, by Larry Bell, is totally dark except for several dimly reflecting glass tubes. Robert Morris created a kind of arctic hothouse, where tiny spruces set in an earth bank simulate an upland for est. Most interesting is the space designed by Franz Erhard Walther, where anybody who comes along is invited to climb into, sit on or play with various canvas objects. This goes...
...home and abroad, though he and the board lacked the power to do the job effectively alone. Despite today's inflation, he succeeded well enough so that the dollar has lost less of its purchasing power since 1951 than the currency of any other major industrial country except West Germany...
...Polish writer who spent much of his adult life in Argentina, totally unknown to the world. He died at 64 in France last year, after enjoying a muffled underground explosion of fame. Cosmos won the $20,000 International Prize for Literature. It is an achingly attenuated suspense story -except that it turns out that there is no object to the chase, no rich cache of contraband drugs, no key diplomatic documents and no blondes. Just a hanged sparrow, a hanged cat, a mysterious bit of wood suspended in a shed and, finally, a hanged man whose death is as meaningless...
...visit and the speech will mark a return to political activism for McCarthy," Peretz commented Saturday. Since the 1968 campaign McCarthy has remained relatively quiet on the war except for Moratorium speeches last Fall...