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DEGAS for these and other reasons was very fruitful and influential for the younger generation, among whom were Lautrec, Vuillard, Bonnard, and other post-impressionists. Indeed, there are those who will contend that Lautrec built solidly and indispensably on every aspect of Degas' production. Far more exciting, I feel, is the way in which his own indefatigable efforts lightened the historical burden for the next great inheritor, Henri Matisse, and facilitated the transition into the twentieth century. This was my personal discovery in the show, the piece of puzzle that so happily fell into place for me. Just as Degas...
...protesting activists, still a very small minority, overlook the accomplishments of society but criticize its shortcomings. Possibly idealistic but skeptical of ideologies, they contend that governments have not performed up to their original promises. The student leftists disdain Soviet-style Communism as spiritually corrupt. The democrats fault the West's inequalities of wealth and race...
...have two. Richard Speck is said to be one such; his attorneys are now preparing an appeal against his death sentence for the 1966 slaying of eight nurses in Chicago. Another is Daniel Hugon, awaiting trial in Paris on a charge of having murdered a prostitute. His lawyers contend that he is mentally unfit to stand trial because of his chromosomal abnormality, and the Paris court has appointed a panel of experts, including both a psychiatrist and one of the world's most brilliant geneticists, Dr. Jerome Lejeune, to advise...
...catastrophes befall these people. Their trials are in what one character calls the "courts of kitchen drama," where sadness and hilarity contend in a constant, shaky equilibrium. The teenage scientist of In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All prankishly pipes non-toxic gas into neighborhood apartments, only to kill off all the animals in his father's pet shop. Still, such trials can end with severe sentences. The deserted mother's vision of her husband's eventual return is affecting because it seems so hopeless. The teenager, unable to face the consequences of his experiment...
Half an hour later Cornell covered the same course in 6:46.1, but had to contend with a stronger head wind. Coach Bo Andersen said that he was impressed by the way the Big Red had come on strong, particularly in the last half mile...