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Nobody who saw them in the early '60s can forget the impact of Stella's first "minimalist" works, the black-stripe paintings, done when he was in his 20s and just out of Princeton. One is apt to think of abstract artists' careers beginning in complexity and ending in reduction with the wisdom of age, like Mondrian's. Stella, so far, has inverted this: he started out polemical and bare, but has complicated his art to the point of apoplexy. Episode II, in which our hero goes nuts in the tropics, battles with spotted fluorescent snakes but does find...
Time for a hunch. Barring man-made calamities, natural disasters or World War III, George Bush is apt to become the next President...
Television journalism demands presence. The first and loudest question is apt to net presidential attention and response. That is the gold. The second, more muted question is apt to be ignored and forgotten, and the asker is apt to feel his stardom and celestial salary threatened. Network White House correspondents can now come close to a million a year. A startled Lyndon Johnson once grumped, "My God, do you realize they pay some of those telly- vision reporters $60,000 a year?" Mere peanuts today...
They learn leadership by example: top administrators at women's colleges tend to be women and, on average, the faculty is 61% female, in contrast to 27% for all higher-ed schools. Without the intimidating male presence, notes WCC's Reindorf, students at all-female colleges are more apt to venture into such traditionally male fields as engineering, physics and economics. At Bryn Mawr, for example, the percentage of physics majors is 20 times as great as the national average for all women students...
...thinker who had mellowed with time. In the process, he modified or danced away from several of his well-documented, iconoclastic views on key legal issues ranging from freedom of speech to sex discrimination. To explain his evolving ideas, he quoted Benjamin Franklin: "The older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment and to pay more respect to the judgment of others...