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PHILLIP DIMITRIOUS, the protagonist in Paul Mazursky's Tempest, is by most standards a very successful man. As a New York architect, he designs fantastic casinos for his mobster boss. He is married to Antonia, an acclaimed actress still the object of others' desire. His daughter, Miranda, is completely immersed in the complexities of pubescent pop culture, complete with movie-star worship and bad imported music...
...from the campus, but the overwhelming influence on U.S. education has been not politics but economics: the need for a technologically trained managerial caste. The very first Land Grant Act, in 1862, handed out 30,000 acres per Congressman for the building of state colleges at which "the leading object shall be ... to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts." These needs keep changing, of course, and over the decades the U.S. economy demanded of its universities not only chemists and engineers but lawyers and accountants and personnel analysts, and then, after Sputnik...
...outline may be or how schematic the stroke of the crayon that says "eye," "breast" or "hip," one can almost always sense the live weight of a body, its organic relationship of part to part, its accessibility to touch. This ability to translate the presence of the physical object into abbreviated signs without sensuous loss is a precondition of good figure drawing, and Avery lacked it; his attitude was too distanced, his style too mannered and crotchety...
Poul Kjærholm of Denmark achieved this natural-and thus human-quality with a lithe chair (1957) in which steel undergirds a swath of cane woven into a combined seat and back rest. The object's elegance surpasses any seating Marcel Breuer or Le Corbusier ever designed in steel and leather...
...students' protest did involve an ill-considered attack on Greenberg. But the object of the protest was the stifling homogeneity of a law school faculty of more than seventy professors, of whom only two are black. That protest was marked by a self-defeating and narrow-minded urge to cuss out whites. But any response to the students' demands that does not consider the larger context in which they arose is similarly narrow-minded." --Randall Kennedy The Nation, September...