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Space Warp & Optic Energy. Some of the objects have the look of an old-fashioned surrealist leg pull. Carl Andre's Lever, for instance, is 100 ordinary firebricks laid on the floor in a straight line. Sol Lewitt's No Title is a 6-ft.-sq. jungle gym of white painted wood (the idea is to look through the structure, not at it). But essentially the new minimalart movement announces that the engineers have now decided to make art their playground.* Much as the pop artists were recruited from the ranks of commercial and advertising artists, the basic...
...recent telecast, Rudd described in deadly detail a Soviet sports-instructors' course, "which lasts some four years and involves 4,000 hours of class' room study. The curriculum is one which might well strike an American gym teacher as impossible if not insane. The students are required to take the following courses: the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; the philosophy of Marx and Lenin; Marxist political economy; the fundamentals of scientific Communism; a foreign language; biochemistry; anatomy, including the dissection of cadavers; the history of pedagogics; the theory of physical culture; the organization...
That's one point of view. But pick an average girl trotting into the ancient Radcliffe Gym, and chances are that she is in a lot better shape than her Harvard counterpart in Lamont...
...many of the Cliffies, sports tie into other activities. Pat Wynn'68, takes dance courses at the Gym and has danced in Guys and Dolls and Finians Rainbow. Others work in recreational jobs for PBH. A few even go out for the CRIMSON, where they get a lot of leg-work...
...Bangor, Me. At last the desperate Muslim-backed promoters looked outside the country, only to be turned down in Montreal and its suburb of Verdun. "We'll hold the fight on a raft in the St. Lawrence River," wailed Promoter Robert Arum. Or maybe in a Saigon gym...