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...five of its members, with the explicit mandate of addressing itself to problems, choices, and priorities in Faculty development. We do this because we think that there is a very real danger that the very important function of long-range planning may be completely eclipsed by the press of current Council business. At a later point in this report. we also suggest the establishment of a series of joint student-faculty committees in which members of-the Faculty Council would be represented. We shall discuss these committees and their relations to the Faculty Council in much greater detail when...
Breakthrough. Brancusi's early work, never before seen in the U.S., is the most surprising part of the current exhibition. In Paris he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and exhibited such accomplished work at the Musée Luxembourg that Rodin invited him to work in his studio. Brancusi refused. "Nothing grows well in the shadow of a big tree," he said, and spent the next two years working in virtual isolation. His last work in a traditional mode is the tender portrait head, Torment. Then, in 1907, he made the great break with the past that...
...peasant vigor. The jagged forms of The Cock, shown here in bronze, were originally carved in wood, concentrating the character of the barnyard bully into his aggressive beak and flaring tail feathers. Sidney Geist, author of the leading study of Brancusi's work and guest curator of the current exhibition, puts the matter succinctly: "Enviable in its scope, dazzling in its perfections, tentative only in its repetitions, the scale of this effort is human rather than superhuman...
Last week Kennedy did it again. During questioning by friendly Republican Congressmen on the Joint Economic Committee, he was asked whether the current 4% unemployment rate was "acceptable or unacceptable." Ignoring a prepared statement that a staffer hastily handed to him, Kennedy replied with more candor than tact: "Under present circumstances, it is acceptable." To compound matters, Kennedy also raised anew the idea that if present anti-inflationary policies do not work, the Administration would have to consider "moving into the field of controls of some kind...
...best explanation for the OSO-IV failure is that a small bubble of gas was trapped in a plastic coating that surrounds the transformer's wire coils. As the gas slowly leaked out it caused a surge of electric current that burnt out the experiment's electric system...