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People wonder why the NCAA isn't tougher or why it's so ineffective. They fail to realize that the organization is only a reflection of its members--most of whom have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. The last we heard of the group, it was booting the Ivy colleges out of Division I. That's hardly the stuff of which cleaning out the system is made...
...most recent paintings, he once again plays the role of the bystander. Dressed in the now familiar gray suit and Chico hat, arms hanging loosely-perhaps helplessly-at his sides, the artist looks searchingly at the viewer, who is his alter ego. The 1980 picture is called Quo Vadis...
...Quo Vadis? The question is superfluous. Where Raphael Soyer is going has never been in doubt. His self-portraits have been emblematic of both his personal detachment from his subjects and the lonely course he has undeviatingly pursued in an era that was long dominated by abstract art. How steadfast he has remained is demonstrated by the show of 17 paintings, "Soyer Since 1960," currently at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., together with a 146-piece exhibit of engravings and lithographs entitled "Sixty-Five Years of Printmaking." Judging from the paintings, Soyer, who is 82, has spent the past...
...people are expecting "something" to happen. Life has become too joyless and humiliating for the average Iranian to allow for any attachment to the status quo. All basic commodities are supposed to be rationed. In fact, rationing is an excuse for black-marketeering. Clergymen in charge of militiamen's committees run the rackets. Their agents sell a pack of cigarettes at $5, about five times the official price, under the counter. Car owners, restricted to 40 liters (10.56 gal.) of gasoline a month, pay about $21 for an extra 20-liter (5.28 gal.) ration coupon, a hefty addition...
...rock society meanwhile was turning its attention to politics, and some Americans wanted to ascribe one or another leftist philosophy to the Stones. Again "Satisfaction" became the focus of discussion--the first Jagger-Richards song about youth discontent with the status quo, the analysts pronounced in retrospect. As the Stones withdrew culturally into the psychedelic-drug world that would ultimately cost them Brian Jones, they were labelled leaders-in-exile of the revolt. "Street Fightin Man" was dubbed an "anthem...