Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kootz Gallery to see his current exhibition, 21 large oils, all but two painted within the last year. A pretty, 13-year-old schoolgirl, feasting her eyes on the bright rectangles aswim in impastes of Christmas-color oils, turned to the great, grey, shambling man and asked timidly, "Aren't you Mr. Hofmann?" With a beam, he nodded, replied, "And of course you paint yourself." For him there was no higher activity and he meant it as a return compliment...
...Milland begins. His supporting cast may be actors or still lifes. That fine old comic stager Melville Cooper is immured on the bench and reduced to clearing his throat. Still, he is spared dialogue like "Now, perhaps, you'll listen to reason," "Dammit, the police aren't fools," or "Where the carrion is, there will vultures be gathered...
...silent question--'Is this all?'" She then rushes into effusions about "marvelously talented college girls who will bear children so much stabler than the neurotic children of my generation." Never tying one though to another, she hurries on: "Children of working mothers don't really care that their mothers aren't at home all day. They don't really care who runs the vacuum cleaner...
...unreal characters aren't enough to make a book this dull. After all, we do care about the vegetarians enough to cringe mildly for them. And a few of the other characters are interesting, too: the little criminal, who is always making up stories about himself and planning great escapades which invariably fail, or the Haitian doctor, a gentle, philosophical communist. And there's not nearly enough about the narrator's mother, who writes to her Haitian lover: "Marcel, I know I'm an old woman and as you say a bit of an actress. But please go on pretending...
...appeal is an important example. A student has "the right and obligation" to appeal a 1-A classification within ten days after it is mailed, the report says. "But appeals are rarely used because people aren't aware they have such rights open to them," Beecher explains. "More often than not, they forfeit the rights by just not using them...