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...unorthodoxy of spirit are gratifying. Catching the student in the act of becoming an artist is. however, a depressing experience. The show has an admirable scope: it includes photography, handicrafts as well as oils and graphics. Adventurous use is made of diverse materials like wool, metal. wood, and plastic. But, in spite of the exhibit's range and diversity, it contains few stirring and competently executed works of art. You have to wonder if the fine artists were rejected, or if they even exist...
AFTER the wrenching ordeal of the Galley affair, it was time for a moment of vernal exuberance. The sap was running in Vermont, where farmers have tapped the sugar maples and the stuff is flowing through plastic tubing directly from the trees to the sugarhouses. Detroit's Belle Isle Park and the banks of the Charles River in Boston sported colorful curtains of kites over the Easter weekend. Kent State students were playing baseball last week on the green where their fatal confrontation with the National Guard took place nearly a year ago. Reprieved from the junk heap...
...military jargon is skillful, and with good reason: D.C. Ill will be carried out by a brigade of 5,000 Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. The veterans will mount one of the most elaborate antiwar protests of the spring. Dressed in fatigues and battle ribbons and carrying plastic M-16 rifles, they will "occupy" Washington for five days, holding a memorial service at Arlington National Cemetery, lobbying on Capitol Hill, then fanning out across the city-as they have in New Jersey and elsewhere -to take over one neighborhood after another in mock "search and destroy" missions. The "Winter...
...remedy the situation, Haydon and Sandhu propose the use of toys to lure handicapped children into more normal activity. The "talking" carpet helps blind children to turn outside themselves for stimulation. So does the "buzz bubble," a plastic dome covered with electrodes that produce, on touch, sounds ranging from a low hum to a high whistle. The blind are also psychologically stimulated by the "tactile board," actually a big box with 35 compartments behind sliding doors that are finished in textured materials-sticks, beads, sandpaper, glass and felt. Tucking things away in the cubbyholes, blind children experience the thrill...
...vets held their discharge orders in one hand, and their other hand held high in a clenched fist. The protest turned into a spontaneous demonstration as the veterans systematically smashed their plastic M-16 rifles on the steps before the television cameras...