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...called and McVeigh is escorted away, his smile vanishes as soon as he re-enters the detention cell. His face immediately sets itself into a neutral expression. If he is playacting, you have to wonder what he thinks that will accomplish. Surely, the circumstances of the case call for utmost gravity on the part of everyone involved. Perhaps McVeigh's behavior is part of his ongoing effort to show that he is just a regular guy, not a narrow-eyed fanatic. If so, he is defeating his own purpose: a regular guy would never act so glibly in this situation...
...been the University's official response? Nothing. This is the ultimate paradox of a University that prides itself on its diversity and spirit of tolerance, as exemplified by its elaborate anti-discrimination policy and numerous events to promote diversity. But the University's inaction demonstrates that its principles of utmost tolerance extend to everybody--as long as your ideas coincide with theirs...
...structure of his unique style--forming it, giving it meaning--was the "wonderful chaos" of nature, opposed in its plenitude to the merely superficial attractions of what we would now call media culture. "Take long walks and take them often," he advised a young painter, "and try your utmost to avoid the stultifying motor car, which robs you of your vision, just as the movies do, or the numerous motley newspapers. Learn the forms of nature by heart so that you can use them like the musical notes in a composition...
...have nothing but the utmost respect for Rudd and what he's done for the council," Hyman said. "But I do have a problem with promoting one council member above another in this...
...used by now to being told that Johns is an artist of the utmost profundity and difficulty that we assume, on peering into the well of his talent, that the fault for not recognizing masterpieces in it lies with ourselves. It's like the familiar Barnett Newman problem: having for so long been told that the famous "Zip" in Newman's canvases contains the unnameable name of God or the tragic condition of humankind, one must make an almost perverse effort of will to look past all the midrash and see a vertical stripe...