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Helen Frankenthaler, whose semiretrospective of 40 paintings opens this week at New York City's Museum of Modern Art and will travel after Aug. 20 to museums in Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Detroit, must now be America's best- known living woman artist. She is only 60, but she was precocious, and her career has been long. Among women artists associated with abstract expressionism, she stands second only to the late Lee Krasner. You could never claim that she has Krasner's emotional range as a painter: pessimism, anger, every abrasive emotion are caught in some inner filter before...
...best is yet to come, and Sherry, who has had Greene's sort-of approval and cooperation, should be in the best position to get it. Of all the big fish still swimming in the shrinking pond of English letters, Greene is one of the most elusive. As Sherry told the British press this spring, "He will not give you anything. If you don't ask, you won't get, and if you do ask, you might well...
This statement seems to capture both sides of the 'good Harvard-bad Harvard' coin. Most students find that friends, or extracurriculars, or being sociable, or living on their own constituted their best education. The flip side is inevitably Harvard's failure to educate--due to its large classes, distant faculty and ill-conceived Core curriculum...
Moreover, even at Harvard, intellectual pursuits are often frowned-upon. It is unseemly to work "too hard," lest one become a geek, and talking with professors--often the best way to learn--is thought of as "brown-nosing." Much admired is the student who can get a "B" without studying, which detracts from more important pastimes such as playing a sport, partying oneself into senselessness, or watching TV and gossiping the night away...
...longer University Hall but Holyoke Center, heart of Harvard's enormous officialdom. Moreover, an endless series of advisers are placed throughout the school in order to make the University more "sensitive" and "aware." The residential Houses, intended as intellectual enclaves within a large university, have become the best place to talk about one's sexual, social or drug problems, but not ideas--your's or anyone else...