Word: catalog
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...home town. Find some cheap, nostalgic piece of clothing you can have mass-produced in Asia, then take out a sumptuously-worded romantic ad in The New Yorker and sell the things for an 800 percent markup (if you think I'm kidding, that's how the J. Peterman catalog was started). Or, best of all, find a couple of electrical engineers who have hit on The New New Thing in computing, tell them you'll help them relate to the non-geeks of the world, then take them public and reap your fortune...
...course, because of this grade inflation in Core classes, the phenomenon must spread to the other classes in the catalog as well. This diffusion of grade inflation is because most professors are loathe to effectively punish students for taking their classes by using tougher grading standards...
...generosity of this artist, born in 1928 to Jewish immigrant parents and trained at Syracuse University and at New York's School of Visual Arts, with an additional background of architectural drafting in the offices of I.M. Pei. Every one of the seven essays in the show's thick catalog pays effusive tribute to the sum of LeWitt's virtues, his "openness" and his "honesty," his recoil from the cult of "heroic" personality and his generous encouragement of a score of his contemporaries, from the sculptor Eva Hesse to the critic Lucy Lippard. Selfless, sober, rational, public spirited--what...
...which squeezes more variations out of a six-sided figure than you might have thought possible. And yet this solemn undertaking has more the air of a stubborn exercise than an imaginative act. Indeed, there are times when, as in The Location of a Line, 1975 (in the catalog but not included in the Whitney incarnation of the show), the written instructions sound like a mad, pedantic math teacher droning himself and everyone else within range into a coma. Compared with this boilerplate, Euclid reads like Mickey Spillane...
...does all this add up to a major and sacrosanct achievement, as the art historians who have compiled the catalog so vehemently claim? To feel so, you would need to think that ideas about art equal...