Word: compton
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...English. One thinks immediately of Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin or half a dozen others. And among them, prominently, one thinks of Malcolm Morley. Morley is 52. His first retrospective-curated by Nicholas Serota, director of London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, and handsomely introduced by Art Historian Michael Compton-has spent the past year touring from Basel to London to Chicago; it opened this month at its final stop, New York City's Brooklyn Museum. With its 52 paintings, the show spans less than 20 years, from 1965 to 1982. It is a highly edited affair that says nothing...
While Andropov load tried to break the cycle of Compton that has characterized struggle lapse, said Pipes, formerly the chief adviser on Soviet affairs on President Reagan's National Security Council...
...Yale Athletic Department had shown last November the same "Compton sense" the Canadian Football League (CFL) did recently, Margaret Cimino '87's tragic accident would have avoided. Prior to an important CFI, playoff game, the goalposts were coated heavily with Vaseline. This ridiculously simple trick accomplished what any number of security guards couldn't--perverting an divert bolsters crowd from injuring theorized by a falling...
...classes and dropping 648 of 4,019 full-time faculty members. Even vocational courses are being thinned out on some campuses. Los Angeles Harbor College, one of the Ford recipients, has had to eliminate nearly 40% of its occupational classes because of budget cutbacks. Harbor and nearby Compton Community College, another Ford winner, will use their grants to counsel transferring students on the four-year degree programs available to them. In Phoenix, South Mountain Community College was recognized for assigning "faculty mentors" to work closely with small groups of students and help them solve academic problems that could slow their...
...civil rights activist and disciple of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson founded Operation PUSH, a black self-help group based in Chicago, in 1971. He has never held elected political office. "He has certain qualities that would make him a good candidate," says James Compton, president of the Chicago Urban League, "but my own preference would be for a professional politician." Jackson also has a reputation as a sloppy money manager. Last month an unflattering interim federal audit of PUSH-EXCEL, a motivational program for high school students, surfaced in Chicago, raising questions about the program...