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...says Henner Ertel, director of Munich's Gesellschaft für Rationelle Psychologie, where researchers have been studying the impact of environment on mental growth since 1970. Indeed Ertel and his co-workers found that the proper selection of colors could instantly raise the average IQs of a random sample of 473 children by twelve points. This was accomplished merely by testing the children in rooms that were painted light blue, yellow, yellow-green or orange-colors the children said they thought were "beautiful...
...unusual punishment, virtually every legal handicapper was stunned. But during the previous nine years, a small and exceptionally talented group of lawyers had worked quietly toward just such a result with painstaking premeditation. Cruel and Unusual, written by one of the lawyers, Michael Meltsner, and published this week by Random House ($8.95), tells how they did it. The details of the battle make for a sometimes rousing intellectual adventure story...
...second floor of the U.S. Court House up to the fifth-floor chambers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. There it will be heard either en banc by the court's membership of nine judges or by a three-judge panel selected at random. Considering the importance of the case, the judges may decide that all should assemble...
...AMERICANS: THE DEMOCRATIC EXPERIENCE by DANIEL J.BOORSTIN 717 pages. Random House...
CERTAINLY there is nothing new about groundbreaking art being greeted with skepticism. The philistines met Gaugin's primitivism with exclamations of "Why, a child could do that!"; the Impressionists were laughed out of the Academie Francaise; Franz Kline's random slashings and Jackson Pollock's random drippings ran another gauntlet of disbelief before being established as art. And as the seventies' Goths buck before art ordered by telephone and manufactured in factories, before pictures of chalked-off earth sites and rocks wrapped in plastic, yet another avant garde rises to vindicate them. But it is an awfully shaky testimony they...