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...near future, President Bunting hopes to create a student advisory committee on housing policy to convey student suggestions on present and projected policies to the Administration...
...uncanny a gift of memory as of metaphor. And what the book had. in the absence of all unity of form, was marked unity of feeling. Considering how much A Death lacked that the theater finds important and how much of importance it had that the theater cannot convey. Mosel's adaptation-greatly helped by Arthur Penn's staging-had a good deal to be said for it. Though hardly a play, much of it proved vividly playable. Mosel, clearly respecting the book preserved much of Agee's feeling for people and of his sense of mood...
Pounding on Nerves. Along with his fellow expressionists, he was trying not so much to paint reality as to convey the sensation that reality inspired in him. While the contemporary French impressionists were often methodically scientific, the German expressionists were both romantic and subjective. Every stroke of the brush was meant to intensify emotion, as if nature were pounding upon raw nerves. Kirchner used quick, jagged strokes that gave his paintings a staccato rhythm. His long and pointed figures had a certain elegance, but they were also painfully intense. As for color, Kirchner sometimes seemed wholly arbitrary: a face could...
...Washington to confer with officials. Later, Pusey and vice-President Nixon issue a joint statement announcing Nixon's appointment to the new Albert B. Fall Memorial Chair of Social Ethics. "I sincerely hope," says the vice-President in a subsequent press conference, "that I will be able to convey my heart-felt feelings about freedom, virtue, and loyalty to my students...
Vice-President Nixon's appearance at 3:15 a.m. was turbulent with conflicting emotions. Nixon himself was more or less conceding, but he could not bring himself to say the words of surrender. His wife, Pat, fought to control her tears. And Nixon, trying to convey his honest feelings, was continually frustrated by an animalistic crowd almost made a farce...