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...founding a museum of modern art to complement the city's long-established Art Institute. But not until 1964, when 30 critics, collectors and dealers met at the home of Critic Doris Lane Butler, did plans get off the ground. And not until 1966 was President Joseph Randall Shapiro able to find suitable space for the new museum-in a handsomely renovated onetime bakery on East Ontario Street. There last week, with a rafter-raising cocktail party replete with macromesh dresses and one dead woodpecker hung around a girl's neck by Artist Ray Johnson, the new Museum...
Robert J. Reinstein, a third-year law students and the office manager of the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam, has recruited canvassers through the committee. Two first-year students, Jeffrey Petrocelli and Saul Shapiro, channeled their efforts to mobilize law students for the last demonstration in Washington through the committee...
...Charles Eliot Norton Professorship, which brings to Harvard each year an authority of high distinction and international reputation, commemorates Harvard's great nineteenth century teacher of art history. Last year the professorship was held by Meyer Shapiro, professor of Fine Arts at Columbia...
...common man's delight in the way things work gave him a great technical advantage over his brother poets. This is especially notable in his war poems. Jarrell, a washed-out pilot (too old), was a dedicated pilot instructor. He wrote about war, says Poet Karl Shapiro, not as other poets "sweating out the war in uniform," but as a participant, armed with military expertise...
Gold in Sea Water. In addition to poetry (four volumes), Jarrell was probably the best poet-critic since T.S. Eliot, as his critical volume, Poetry and the Age, attests. He rejected what Poet Shapiro calls "Eliot's High Church voice" in favor of "plain American, which dogs and cats can read." He demanded plain speech and uttered it. Thus his heroes were homespun Wordsworth, unfashionable Kipling, Thomas Hardy, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost and, of course, the greatest American poet to speak for the common man-Walt Whitman...