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...also possible that the University could find or raise the money necessary to keep rents down. Claverly, for example, might be used as a graduate dormitory. In any case, the University should not dismiss out-of-hand ideas that vary from its time-encrusted budgetary procedures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Making Use of Mather | 10/21/1967 | See Source »

...Manhattan. Starting as a cubist, Reinhardt gradually reduced color, texture and deign to almost jet-black canvas squares, with only the slightest shadings of muted colors and black-on-black stripes. "I'm just making the last paintings anyone can make," he said. Critics long tended to dismiss his grail as more void than essence, yet in recent years the art world rewarded his search with fame and up to $15,000 per canvas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 8, 1967 | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...however, indignantly dismiss press reports that the war is in stalemate as "nothing more than propaganda." To his critics on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is holding hearings to prove its contention that congressional authority in foreign affairs is being trampled upon, Johnson insisted he was within his constitutional rights to conduct undeclared war in Viet Nam. He reminded them of the broad Tonkin Gulf resolution, passed three years ago, in which Congress approved "all necessary steps, including the use of armed force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Failure of Communication | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...easy to label Corman a not-too-effective purveyor of hippie culture, then dismiss him. But the fact is, he's pimping for the hippies and their prurient elders. The hippies can look at Corman's motorcyclists as social outcasts who never get a chance, who always have to keep moving. They can honor Hell's Angels as champions of freedom. The elders can point to the Angels' intolerance toward anybody outside the gang, their destructiveness, their eager brutality; they won't live and let live...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: The Wild Angels, The Trip | 8/8/1967 | See Source »

...appeal board sided with Rudolph. If the board conducts a hearing on Rudolph's new scheme it will probably uphold his decision. The only other method of defeating the new traffic plan would be to fire Rudolph. The City Manager--not the City Council--has the power to dismiss him, and he is unlikely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Traffic Pattern | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

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