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Cornell's imagination was allusive, delicate and, in a liberated way, reserved. He had no interest in the erotic, scatological and sadistic images that were basic to French surrealism: the Comte de Lautréamont and the Marquis de Sade did not preside over the house on Utopia Parkway. French surrealism was to a great extent defined by its indispensable enemy, French bourgeois Catholicism. Surrealism's whole mode of attack-the manifestoes, shock treatment and sacerdotal gesticulation-was based on an idea of the artist as public figure, the Anti-Priest, to which Cornell did not subscribe...
...Harvard Management Co. take over the endowment on July 1, the general attitude will probably be more daring and liberal than State Street's. It is likely that Cabot will stick with the present two-thirds, one-third balance presently between stocks and bonds. But the turnover rate amont stocks and securities may increase under Cabot and Harvard may experiment with small investments in emerging and venture capital...
...These ghosts, thin and sharp as memory in the preservative desert air, flit through empty, curlicued facades or congregate amid their elaborate furniture, radiating a wistful chic; as image maker, Curtis is more elegant than challenging. His objects do not confront one another in shock, like Lautréamont's famous sewing machine and umbrella on a dissecting table-they nod, as it were, with mild and civil assent, a little surprised to find each other surviving in Arizona. Survival, in fact, is the keynote of such art. In the end, even the nostalgia of Philip Curtis' vision...
Reaction to the announcement amont the dissatisfied Cliffies was generally favorable, If luke-warm. Students now living off-campus agreed that although they might have hoped for something more major, the changes certainly would make ther lives easier...
...made of the dances of the sailors and the Spanish women, which occur in the first act. The most amusing feature of the performance was the "Beacon Babies" who made a hit with their parody in the second act. The specialties in this act also produced the usual amont...