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Social Sciences 101, ideology and Value in Social Theory, which will be given for the first time next Spring, will have a format radically different from any other course offered at Harvard; in addition to lecturing, the members of the staff will argue specific issues...
Which all goes to show that anyone with fact, gall and intelligence can raid the Big Ones for interviews and contributions; it would seem that the Island's evident weakness--its mimeographed format and tiny circulation--is a hidden asset when it deals with genuinely kind people like Auden. But it takes a lot of wit and perseverence to collect as impressive an issue as this one; Shaw, Plotz a Co. have done it well and quietly. I hope they persist...
...Female Nude with a Shield is the of his most refined classical drawings. In it he devotes an almost scientific attention to perspective and the antique ideas of proportion. Furthermore, the representation of a nude figure is, in itself, a Renaissance rather than a medieval form. But while the format is classical, the figure he renders is far from an idealized human body. The features of the figure are awkward, bordering on the grotesque, and the line he uses to describe the anatomical details is strong and expressive. Both of these qualities earmark the drawing's Gothic spirit...
...starting a television series matching himself against liberal sparring partners. He invited Kennedy to appear on the first show, scheduled to be broadcast this week, offering him 1) a choice of time because the program is taped, 2) a $500 honorarium and 3) a role in planning the format. Kennedy had an aide send terse regrets. As to why Kennedy refused, Buckley explains: "Why does baloney reject the grinder...
Holbrook, who has crisscrossed the U.S. and Europe in this one-man show, brings it to Broadway with much fresh material culled from Twain's writings. The casual format is that of one of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures when he was 70. The props are simple: a lectern, a Victorian chair, a pitcher of water, an omnipresent cigar from which Holbrook fires volleys of smoke like a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside his thunderbolts for cheroots...