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...Barnett Newman created a "Lace Cur tain for Mayor Daley" made of the barbed wire used for police barricades in August and spattered with red paint. Robert Motherwell decided to send two already completed abstract expressionist canvases. "The significance is to participate," he said. "This show represents the politics of feeling, not the politics of ideology." Sculptor Robert Morris settled for a telegram. His suggestion: redo the Chicago fire...
...teen-agers have been gravely affronted by Claire Barnett's prideful claim of "tuning them (television commercials) out for so many years." Why does she think we do our homework in front of the television set? Ensconced in our sanctuary before the tube, we enjoy eight minutes of continuous work, easily giving attention to both TV and texts. The only interruptions we suffer are during the commercials, when we automatically drop the books and "tune in." It's the simplest thing in the world to study while the forces of good and evil meet in climactic clash deciding...
...Chart Researchers Claire Barnett and Nina Wilson put in an equally painstaking few weeks collecting the necessary statistics for the commercial time chart that runs along with the cover story. TV networks would not release programming logs, so the girls had to spell each other as they monitored a complete three-network "commercial day." Everywhere they went-to the office, to parties, and through all their household chores-they carried their stopwatches with them. One or the other of them was never far from the sight and sound of a TV set. "The hardest part was learning to 'tune...
...ordered the children reinstated immediately. In Americus, Ga., four civil rights workers were indicted on a variety of trumped-up charges; Judge Tuttle went to the town, convened a three-judge court on the spot, and freed the four. It was also Judge Tuttle who rebuffed Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett and told him firmly that the U.S. Supreme Court must be respected. Barnett had made the mistake of asking Tuttle to ignore the court and grant him a jury in a contempt trial that grew out of his role in the University of Mississippi riots...
Vincent M. Barnett Jr., president of Colgate, said yesterday that "there are questions of human rights involved on both sides." Barnett has asked the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York State Commission on Human Rights to consult with a panel of Trustees on Monday about the students' second demand...