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...democracy? And to condemn Communism as a Jewish creation makes about as much sense as condemning philosophy as a pagan creation--the particular school of thought has nothing to do with the religion of the human beings who developed it. (Good gods! Evolution is a Christian creation, and algebra and astronomy are Moslem creations...
...staff members presumably share humanitarian goals with their peers at other papers, they seem less obsessed with tradition and less impressed by themselves. Color pictures are more attractive, as any black-and-white television watcher can attest. Charts and graphs aid understanding, as any graduate of a high school algebra and trigonometry class knows. Most articles that continue beyond the page they start on fail to compel readers to turn the page. All sad but true facts for the newspaper traditionalist educator...
...graffiti artist like the fulsomely promoted Keith Haring, 25-the Peter Max of the subways-filched his ideas, a decade later. Penck's paintings consist of stick figures and linear signs, enacting parodies of myth, ritual and archaic language. They draw on a wide range of sources, from algebra to Dipylon vases, from set theory and scribbles on the Berlin Wall to American Indian petroglyphs. Like a lot of earlier modernist art, they quote the "primitive" forms out of all cultural context, stubbornly, like someone repeating a misunderstood spell...
...average or above. But when he found a subject that caught his fancy, like English, he got top grades. He had to take biology and physics and benefited, he said, because he "found out that was not something I was interested in. I remember surprising myself in mathematics. In algebra in the final examination...
...unfettered procreation; death is an inconvenient guest arriving belatedly at a middle-class dinner party. As for the other ages, they are seen variously as: a sex-education class in which, despite a live demonstration of the subject, the students pay about as much attention as if it were algebra period; a battlefield in which the officer class sleeps late, dines well and goes tiger shooting while the soldiers fight and die; a four-star restaurant in which the sin of gluttony is acted out with a vividness unprecedented in the history of cinema...