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Blood & Yelps. Jack Kennedy's strong lead (see box), and his needling criticism of the last eight Republican years, had put Nixon sharply on the defensive. By touring solid Republican country where the crowds were fairly yelling for blood, Nixon was able to let go the full jolt of the "rocking, socking" battle that he had been saving for the campaign windup...
Esthetics was not all that Dubuffet was out to destroy. He also wanted to jolt traditional ideas of time and space. If he painted a woman, she became all women, the archetype. Often she would have the appearance of a squooshy polyp who was not only a mass of flesh and viscera but also a piece of geology-a part of history, a part of the earth. As for scale, Dubuffet would have none of it. A painting could be both a vast landscape and at the same time a tiny patch of dust seen through a microscope...
...curriculum. For the first grade: reading taught by phonics, writing with spelling (now often delayed until third grade), arithmetic emphasizing basic principles. Science and foreign languages should begin no later than sixth grade. From elementary grades on, statewide tests should check on each school's progress. To jolt high schools, state-run colleges should report on freshmen performances-and school boards should publish the results...
...Warren High School, Fran Doroshow, 18, a pediatrician's daughter who started it all, said she got mostly A's and ranked seventh in her class ('59). At Boston's Simmons College this past year, she got a jolt. Simmons festooned her freshman English essays with C-minuses, and she knows why. "In all my years in high school," recalls Fran, "I wrote only two essays and one term paper. They came back with A's and no criticism." French was an equal bust: "I had three years of French in high school, but when...
Robert Chapman, Director of the Loeb Drama Center, emphasized the "impact" necessary for drama. "College drama must undertake the effort to jolt theatre out of its complacency," he stated. Although the other two speakers did not follow Chapman's semi-militant tone, they agreed with his suggestion in principle...