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...administration thinks that the problem isn't that public schools are falling apart, but that children still attend them. The constructed "right" to private education is actually a "right" to escape a public one. Rather than fixing America's public school system, the president wants to construct a lifeboat to get children...
...council's problems are related to the very existence of an inner circle of council big-wigs. Heinicke has helped construct a tightly knit group which many members say is impossible to penetrate. Members have complained to The Crimson about a U.C. "old boys network" that makes some feel excluded from major decisions...
Fitch, an artist, said he has worked on the project off-and-on over the past two years. He said he initially planned to adorn the bench with assorted colored glass and water fountains. But because such a design would have been difficult to construct and maintain, Fitch decided to build a simpler, "hill-shaped" bench instead...
Daniel C. Dicicco '92, chair of the Adams House Committee, said he was concerned with the length of time the project had been taking to construct...
Could one construct an American epic in such terms? Johnson clearly hoped to do so -- with a little help, evidently, from the work of Stuart Davis and Lyonel Feininger as well; several of his images of black Southern life from the early '40s have a wonderful amplitude and strictness of construction that hold their vivid colors together with a sort of consuming, sad energy. They are the blues, in paint. Everything seems right about the pattern of Sowing (circa 1940): the fierce orange and yellow stripes, the eccentric placement and displacement of shape, the not quite naive use of repetition...