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...Brightest" atmosphere of Harvard in the early '60s. "I mean, I got turned on to psychedelics while I was an undergraduate. While people were going after that whole Leary-Alpert connection, I was doing the same thing they were. My values became much more in the late '60s mode," he says...
Chafin says he plans to develop a "new promotional mode" in the department. Candidates for promotion will first have to take a written examination prepared by an outside agency, and then go through a follow-up oral examination. The new chief also expects to fill a few patrolmen's jobs in the near future, a move that will likely please the several patrolmen who last spring wondered why the police administration never bothered to fill the vacancies that occurred during the Gorski administration. Patrolman James P. Sullivan explained last June that when Gorski entered the department, he claimed he would...
...show abounds in deliberately "poetic" photographs, over which surrealism?which, one is I reminded, Susan Sontag claims to be the natural mode of photographic vision?presides. Some are deliberately manipulated montages, like Jerry N. Uelsmann's dream pictures. Others are plain sights deliberately set up, like Ralph Gibson's The Enchanted Hand, 1969?a delicately ectoplastic fantasy, very much in the spirit of Joseph Cornell. Some photographs are manifestly the product of chance, an incongruous moment caught in flight. The most startling of these is Mark Cohen's Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, June 1975, which shows a girl's head almost...
...concentrated (and made epigrammatic) by its littleness. The box serves him as it served Joseph Cornell: as a diminutive theater in which anything can happen, whose proscenium marks its contents off from the real world. But Westermann's imagination is quite unlike Cornell's nostalgic, refined mode of dreaming. It is colloquial, even brash, charged with sexual tension and loaded with implications of frustration and death...
Handke's combination of Kafka's elemental terror and Wittgenstein's linguistic austerity is both formidable and unique. Certainly no one of note now writing in the U.S. works in his mode...