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...proportion, invented by the Greeks and widely used in Renaissance Italy, known as "the golden section"-a way of dividing a line so that the smaller part is to the larger as the larger is to the whole. At first, Rockburne's Golden Section Paintings look homely: coarse cloth, stained creosote brown and traversed by lines in blue builder's chalk. But they are suffused by a remarkable tension and rigor, conferred by the intelligence with which she manipulates her schemes of proportion...
Daniel Buren's is a more curious case. In the past few years, Buren's enterprise, or gesture, has been to make striped panels that look exactly like awning cloth and hang them anonymously in public places. "Form, art's quest throughout the centuries," writes Buren, 36, "becomes a matter of no interest, superfluous and anachronistic. Of course then art is bound to disappear . . . Creating, producing, is henceforth of only relative interest, and the creator, the producer, no longer has any reason to glorify 'his' product...
Harvard is not alone, however, in charging its students for towel use. Dartmouth absolutely refuses to give them out at all anymore while Yale, Princeton and Penn have resorted to the sort of terry cloth rental system being tried here...
SOCIAL INSECURITY. David Seidman, 68, once looked forward to a comfortable retirement. He had worked 20 years as a cloth cutter in Los Angeles, earning $160 a week when he left and had invested $8,000 in a savings and loan. But inflation has robbed Seidman of his dreams. "I am now living on social insecurity and a little interest from my savings," he says bitterly. "If I had not had that I would have died...
...verge of dropping him, Nixon proved equal to his first real crisis. On radio and television, he insisted that the fund was used for political and not personal expenses, that he was a man of modest means whose wife did not wear mink but "a respectable Republican cloth coat," and that yes, there was one gift he was going to keep - a black and white cocker spaniel named Checkers. Though many found "the Checkers speech" full of cant and treacly sentimentality, the flood of favorable telegrams persuaded Eisenhower to execute a smart about-face...