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...Using objects," she explains, "you can make a clearer statement about reality and illusion. With a painting, all is illusion." However, too much reality is not desirable either, because "today everything is more ambiguous." A case in point is her recent i AM A PACIFIST but . . . WAR-pictures are too BEAUTIFUL, which deals with "the contrast of beauty and destruction, a hidden commentary on war and pacifism." Inscribed within the work, together with tiny, exquisite maps of battle plans and bifurcated nuclear mushrooms, are passages, in German, from letters Mary wrote to her mother in 1943 and 1944. One telling...
...rally support for it. So far he has made no decision. It is clear, however, that whatever arguments Johnson offers will have to be both eloquent and candid if he hopes to sway any appreciable number of dissenters to his side. It is even clearer that he can never hope to win them all over. Nor should he, if it is true that democracy's great self-corrective is reasonable dissent and debate...
After 24 hours' deliberation, the jury reported back "hopelessly deadlocked." Coolly Johnson replied: "There is no reason to assume that the case will ever be submitted to twelve more intelligent, more impartial or more competent men to decide it, or that more or clearer evidence will be produced on one side or the other." He sent them back. After three more hours, the jury reached a verdict: guilty. Johnson sentenced all three Klansmen to the maximum ten years in prison...
...stops, called "fixation pauses." Each fixation takes about one-quarter of a second. In moving from one fixation to another, the eye makes a quick jerk which takes only about 15 thousandths of a second. The eye often moves backward toward the beginning of the line to get a clearer view of the material or to reread it. These are called regressions and occur about ten times per 100 words. The interfixation moves--the jerks between words as well as the return sweep after each line is finished--take only six per cent of the total reading time, while...
...future of the on-again-off-again Harvard baseball team will become much clearer this weekend after the Crimson takes on Eastern League opponents Cornell and Pennsylvania...