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...several interesting things--that Harvard's problems are not unique to Harvard; that there is in fact some sort of national drift in undergraduate education; and that the American educational community is sufficiently unified and reverent of Harvard that a major directive from Cambridge would be listened to with utmost seriousness across the country...
...work like Tango (circa 1919), the dress suit and the white vest-rendered with the utmost economy as a patch of gesso on the smooth cherry-wood - take on a sleek, concise elegance far removed from the naive woodcarvings of country America that provoked Nadelman's hand. He was an exquisite connoisseur of gesture, and his finest works-particularly the suite of woodcarvings to which Tango belongs-stem from his delight in performance: in music halls or burlesques, at plays, piano recitals or even tea dances...
...SOMEWHAT IRONIC--although possibly appropriate--that bookstores in the Square were pushing The Female Imagination for Mother's Day. Most of the writers Spacks critiques seem to have found motherhood a destructive condition--a cause for utmost ambivalence in virtually all women. The beautiful woman dreads that pregnancy will disfigure her. The career woman fears that motherhood will distract her. And the growing woman fears that motherhood will enslave her. Spacks again finds that an adolescent, in this case. Esther Greenwood from The Bell Jar, sees most explicitly the destructiveness which this particular kind of creativity can cause...
Apart from the Venezuelan artist Jesus-Raphael Soto, only one of the painters on whom the Op label was stuck ten years ago seems to have really developed, continuing to produce work of the utmost seriousness. She is an Englishwoman named Bridget Riley, whose first New York show in seven years opened last week at the Sidney Janis Gallery...
...million to 793 victims. As the less serious cases are identified-and there are 2,700 suspected victims still to be given official medical examinations-Chisso will be liable for compensation payments of as much as $60,000 per person. Says a contrite executive: "We have to do our utmost to pay up, no matter what...