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Police are not normally apt to be shocked by four-letter words. But, as in the Columbia University uprising last spring, they were outraged to see obscenities printed on placards or hear them shouted by apparently well-educated, middle-class young men and women. The barrage of epithets helped convince some policemen that their opponents were scarcely human-and they all too often shed their own humanity. Witnesses frequently noted that if a demonstrator being chased by police got away, the cops would simply club whoever else was handy. A Chicago doctor drove up to one officer to report that...
...before getting down to the glories of this volume-82 color plates of some of the world's rarest shells. Polished, arranged, color coordinated and lighted to studio perfection, these examples attain a beauty they never possessed when their original owners were in residence. In vivo, mollusks are apt to be encrusted with organisms and covered with silty residues. Presumably, after "five hundred million years of inspired design," they get a little careless about surface appearances. Fortunately, man, the beholder, is still quite young enough to care...
...Smith, edited by Cleve Gray (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 176 pages; $22.95). The book offers the illuminating experience of hearing a sculptor speak for himself in prose and free verse that echoes what Smith himself called the "belligerent vitality" of his work. Smith's writings, like his sculpture, are apt to be compact and condensed, and his syntax is sometimes bewildering. Nonetheless, his thoughts become clear enough with a little patient attention. Excerpts...
...Nixon is apt to be a shrewder and more adroit diplomat-in-chief than Humphrey, whose impetuosity and trustfulness could prove to be serious liabilities. Humphrey often seems too ready to believe the last person he has talked to and too easily impressed by foreign leaders. Though Nixon has never been particularly popular among America's allies (or foes), he would be cooler, more concerned with basic geopolitics than with the feeling of the moment...
...1930s, social protest was second nature to the politically conscious artist. In the 1960s, instead of editorializing in melodramatic imagery, the artist is apt to employ the more oblique weapons of abstract parody and wit. His sentiments are no less angry on that account-as could be seen last week in Chicago. At the Feigen Gallery, 47 artists displayed acid valentines to Mayor Richard J. Daley, 21 of them composed especially for the show...