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...notion of art," claims Bennington Art Professor Feeley, "has to do with something that has presence but isn't unduly urgent, that brings you to it rather than projects itself upon you." His sensuous colors don't scream for attention, but they are thoroughly seductive once they get it. Fifteen works in plastic paint on unsized canvas. Through...
...Theodore Roethke wrote in the title poem of this last collection. What he loved was growing things (no important U.S. poet since Thoreau has been less citified) and their textures. What he celebrated was his love for his young wife (now 38, she had been his student at Bennington College, where he taught English). And what he feared was death...
What ever could bring Parrish back? None other than the pop promoter of this era: Lawrence Alloway, nimble curator of Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. Alloway has escorted a show of Parrish's work from far-out Bennington College to Manhattan's conservative Gallery of Modern Art, where last week 52 Parrish.es went on view...
...Internal twin halves of a big midwestern University, chances are you will have to take it sooner or later. Even the oldest bulwarks of bachelorhood and separation are crumbling. Princeton admitted five women this year; Hamilton plans to take 400 by 1970. Men have begun matriculating at Hunter, Bennington, and Smith graduate schools. Yalies even Yalies have been agitating for changes and urging their girlfriends to besiege the admissions office...
...after making studies at Smith, the faculty apparently did not see enough big projects, enough new subjects learned, enough brave experiments. Afraid to make a big leap of faith into Bennington or Sarah Lawrence-style liberalism, they granted only a bit of it, and nervously revoked it when it didn't look enough like academic orthodoxy after...