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Though Harvard's Fogg Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery have long been renowned, until recently the average U.S. campus art collection was apt to consist of a hodgepodge of works donated by alumni with more generosity than taste, housed in a dusty wing of the fine-arts building. Today college museums across the country aspire both to finer art and glossier quarters. In April, the University of Michigan reopened a renovated $750,000 museum, and Brown will soon break ground for a new $2,000,000 art building. Other schools that, since 1958, have opened new buildings...
Holcey Hip. The peculiar appeal of the Smothers is that they pull off these bum mots with such a deceptive air of wide-eyed innocence that the cornier the material, the louder the laughs. A more apt name for them would be the Mothers' Brothers. "We attract the kind of fans that want to mother us," says Dick, 28. "We're so college-looking and clean-cut," says Tom, 30. "The American Legion likes us and so does the left wing." And so does every wing of the younger generation. The boys have the jug-eared look...
...colonial empires after World War II brought about a rash of such arbitrary creations. Many ex-colonial countries had sovereignty conferred on them by their former masters under the U.N.'s aegis, without the often salutary experience of having to fight for their freedom. Such countries are apt to be based on arbitrary old colonial boundaries. They are either so small that they have no independent viability, as in the case of Chad or Dahomey or Upper Volta, or else so large and composed of such disparate tribes that they have no common sense of nationhood...
...reorganize the student government association at Radcliffe, making it a "community wide" organization which includes administrators and students alike as voting members. On numerous occasions, she has chided students who have cynically regarded her plans as fait accompli. At a Radcliffe Government Association meeting, she is apt to repeat, "I've come here because I want to hear what you think. Do you have any ideas? What shall we change...
...societies, youth's initiation into the mysteries of sex and life is the awesome duty of family or tribe. Yet in the West, and particularly in Puritan America, parents rarely perform a major conscious role in this respect-although their unconscious attitudes profoundly influence their children. Parents are apt to feel strained, embarrassed, inadequate to the task. Many psychiatrists agree that parents are too often beset by their own sexual problems or guilt feelings to make good sex teachers. They can hardly imagine their children as anything but innocent, while the children can hardly imagine their parents engaged...