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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During a Feininger exhibition at the Curt Valentine Gallery some years ago, a painter remarked that there was really no canvas in the show he would like to take home despite his superlative opinion of the exhibit. He went on to say that, nevertheless, this was the best show on Fifty-Seventh Street and not one easily forgotten. The comment is indicative despite its derogatory aspect. A painter can usually, or should ideally, be able to project his knowledge and instinct beyond his taste, the last mentioned being surface matter in the business of criticism. It was this gentleman...
...competition, Conway said, will begin "very shortly," although the final judging will not be done until sometime next spring. Two separate awards, he explained, will be made; one for the best work in painting, sculpting, or photography by House members, and the other award for the best piece of creative writing produced by a Leverett student...
...best way to demonstrate the principle of self-determination on Taiwan is to continue with the election process which the Nationalist government is now operating at the local level. Whenever this process can be built up and begin to operate for Taiwan as a whole, under the auspices of the present government, it will go far to show that the people there have a form of democratic self-determination. John K. Fairbank '29, Professor of History...
...according to the Lederer-Burdick ideal, live at the native level, stay outside the Americans' "ingrown social life," also known as S.I.G.G. (Social Incest in the Golden Ghetto), never shop at the PX, work with their hands, and do winsome things like playing the harmonica. Among the best of these is "the ugly American" of the title, a big, homely engineering genius full of bright, simple, technical ideas that the overambitious Asians want no part of. Like most of the "good" Americans in the book, he is eventually brought down by stuffy and hidebound U.S. officialdom...
Even the adepts of the Bogart cult had best stay away from this one, for they will not enjoy seeing Bogie in so dismal an undertaking. The fault, to be sure, is not his; he is in good form, and gets in some good gunplay, first-rate pistol-whipping, and concludes with a chase in the grand manner through the California mountains...