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...Washington (where school enrollment is 97% black), Jackson's remarks have been warmly received by Acting School Superintendent Vincent Reed and many teachers. But some of his listeners wonder: Can students, by an act of will, overcome chaotic family lives and schools with overworked teachers and inadequate equipment, textbooks and libraries? Jackson's answer is bound to stir hot arguments. "Nobody will save us from us," says...
Spain was a small, provincial place in 1650. Its economy was chaotic, its empire was fraying, the royal treasury was near bankruptcy and state policies were mostly devised by knaves or fossils. Art patronage was erratic, and to learn any thing about the "mainstream," a young painter of talent like Ribera or Murillo had to spend long stretches abroad...
...People's Republic printed two newly released poems by China's No. 1 revolutionary and poet, Chairman Mao Tse-tung. The poems, published one week after the Great Helmsman's 82nd birthday, were written just over ten years ago, as China was about to begin the chaotic Cultural Revolution. It seems likely that their release now was intended to recall some of the fervor but none of the violence of that period...
...photograph like "Mrs. Mulhall and Child, Ozark Family, Arkansas, 1935" may seem casually taken, yet it is a perfect picture. The mother, child and doll are incongruous in size, expression, and surface texture. They are also rather desperately poor. Another photograph of these subjects could have been chaotic or shocking or both; Shahn's is tied together formally by intricate series of triangular rhythms and rescued from pathos by the contentment of the child and the alert concern of its mother...
...affirmative action (which requires a college to prove that it is taking steps to eliminate discrimination on the basis of sex or race). Indeed, after a survey of affirmative-action programs at 132 schools, the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education declared that they are "confused, even chaotic," full of contradictory guidelines, and enforced by agencies that are often "feuding with each other." The federal regulations have further threatened the survival of many colleges that are already in perilous financial condition; they simply cannot afford the paper work and restrictions that each new program entails. Some...