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Even if Coleman won't make any grand judgements on the system that has supported him, he ought to allow others to attain his personal dream of wholeness. In the detachment of his Haverford office, Coleman certainly should reflect on the masses of workers who have never had the opportunity to exercise their minds for a couple of months in, say, the rigors of running a college. Naturally he ought to step down for a spell to give them all a chance to write White-Collar Journals and achieve some sense of regained self. But of course, as Coleman notes...
...tell us what Vietnamese think Americans think Vietnamese are thinking--but most times it seems to be just the way Rubin writes. Partly as a result of his syntax and partly because of the childish-sounding exclamations with which he dots their speech, Rubin's Rhade only intermittently attain the dignity they need to make us fully care for them--a dignity we do sense, for instance, hearing about the days when the sky was so low that fish could nibble at the stars when the water rose, when the Rhade's ancestor laughed at his father...
...Dove. Amiet's work, though less aggressively avantgarde, is also of more than parochial quality. After his early apprenticeship with Gauguin's disciples in the Pont-Aven group, he never lost his interest in broad, ripe patternings of color. The colors - as in Apple Harvest, 1907 - could attain an ecstatic, ballooning lightness...
...Gordon and Phillipe are as qualified All-American candidates as any others here," Marion said. "I am pretty confident that they can do it." To attain All-American standing, a fencer must finish in the top six in his weapon...
...system is nothing if not simple. "The fame that some artists attain in time," Bongard writes, "is measurable, on condition that this fame is based mainly on the work of an artist. Certain conclusions may then be drawn as to his qualities." And how may one assess fame? On points. An artist gets 300 points, for instance, if he sells a work to the Museum of Modern Art or the Met, and so down through the Tate Gallery (200), and the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Turin (160). For a one-man show at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm...