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...romantic oval portrait that makes Tricia and Julie Nixon look like teenage heroines of a Victorian novel won approval from their White House parents. "It's so sweet," said Pat. The artist, Mississippian Marshall Bouldin, explained that he found the girls' dominant aura one of "wholesomeness and cleanliness" and that he had tried to express this in the painting. To which President Nixon replied, grinning: "They're wholesome and clean-cut, but they're oval, not square...
...Aura of Tragedy. As artists go, Boghosian is something of a poet, whose expressive power stems from his skillful embroidery of associations, intimations and unspoken allusions. While the content of his work is literary, its expression is far from literal. Legend recounts, for instance, that Orpheus was torn limb from limb by Thracian women infuriated at his single-minded love for Eurydice; his severed head, still singing, floated down the river Hebrus. To recall this macabre event, Boghosian mounted a wooden doll's head that had been wrenched from its body onto a weathered plank from an old snip...
...exhibitions for the Arts Club of Chicago, where a large show of Boghosian's sculpture is currently on display: "But when you look at the combination of wood, metal or whatever he has used, you feel as if they had grown that way. The result has an aura of tragedy and darkness and mystery that seems to come through...
...into eight faculties, each with its own provost and budget. With rare aplomb, he charmed campus radicals while pioneering the now widely used tactic of getting courts to enjoin seizers of campus buildings. Meyerson's diplomatic tal ents fit Pennsylvania's needs precisely. Despite its Ivy League aura, the 230-year-old university is crammed into a downtown Philadelphia campus, where the new president will have to reconcile both student rebels and resentful blacks in the surrounding ghetto...
...different in Guatemala. Most of the people are sympathetic to the guerrillas, but are very threatened by the aura of death. Which invites Latin American revolutionaries to make the most terrible choice-to presume to wage war on a genocidal enemy. The latest Tupamaro (urban guerrillas of Uruguay) watchword lays it out-"If there isn't a homeland for all, there won't be a homeland for anybody." ( Granma, Havana, Oct. 18, 1970, "Tupamaros Interview" reprinted in NUC (New University Conference) Papers ?? t, Chicago...