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...Boston mayoralty campaign picked up speed yesterday when Rep. Louise Day Hicks (D-Mass.) denounced Mayor Kevin White for refusing to agree to a format for the long-awaited public debate scheduled for next Monday, October...
...hidden forks in American art history was reached on Jan. 29, 1948, when a painter named Barnett Newman painted a thin, rough orange stripe down the exact center of a small dark red canvas, and left it alone. It is hardly an exaggeration that most of the symmetrical format, stripe, minimal, and otherwise post-De Kooning art produced in New York in the '60s refers, in the end, to this modest picture that Newman called Onement I. Newman's ruthless pursuit of the implications of this canvas both split his work from the main...
...painting like Untitled (Number 2), 1950, now looks like a singular prophecy of the stripe work that dominated New York galleries 15 years later; it predicts Noland all the way, from the long narrow format of canvas to the pure, hard-edged bands of red and black. (Asked if he had begotten stripe paintings, Newman replied with characteristic irony that "if I am the father, I never had the honor of knowing the mother.") But most Abstract Expressionists thought his work perversely formalistic. Its very muteness was an offense...
Overruling changes toward more balanced musical format proposed by station manager Charles Perkins '73 and programming director Michael Gruber '72, the board voted 2-1 (with one abstention) to revert to last spring's predominately classical schedule. The move was without precedent...
...thirds of the contributors to this double-edition of the Advocate are Harvard students; almost all the contributors are local talent. It is an abrupt departure from the more common Advocate practice of importing names to the table of contents from out of state--or from masthead. The artistic format has been changing too; no longer depending on a staid layout, the editors are exploring the potentials of graphics. If the Advocate's innovations can stimulate better contributors as well as more contributions, it may find itself rivalling, for the first time, its old reputation...