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...with enthusiasm for themselves and for each other. Many scorn the art schools, and find their instruction and inspiration in a vast weekly banquet of important and exciting art shows. Their feverish eclecticism, their penchant for picking at random among the established schools and philosophies, lends the whole a chaotic effect. But the fact remains that good art seen in such quantity and variety stretches the imaginations, and therefore the possibilities...
...gave almost 100 votes to Eisenhower, assuring him of the nomination. No Sabu with Dewey's skills seems to be emerging to hold the state together as well as the former governor did. Unless President Eisenhower himself decides to run again, the New York delegation may be in a chaotic state at the 1956 Republican convention...
...heard the trumps of doom amid the saxophones, and Poet Hart Crane was tortured by "the phonographs of hades in the brain." The phonographs of 1954 sound far less like hades. Jazz as played by Brubeck and other modernists (Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Shorty Rogers) is neither chaotic nor abandoned. It evokes neither swinging hips nor hip flasks. It goes to the head and the heart more than to the feet. Spokesmen for various jazz cliques have claimed that it doesn't swing (or swings like crazy), is cool (or hot), too intellectual (or just warmed-over...
...school taught French Author-Lecturer Pierre Emmanuel enough about American students to give him serious misgivings. Compared to his former lycee pupils in France, he reports in the Atlantic Monthly, the average U.S. college student-in spite of his spontaneity and curiosity-has an intellectual background that is often chaotic, usually confused, and generally notable for its "absence of basic information...
...League's action in many instances was "detrimental to the name of the College." Summing up his statement, the Council president concluded, "We have not denied them what we feel is their right to organize. Our amendment was merely an attempt to place some rational consideration into a ridiculously chaotic situation...