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...confidence to deal with his specifically American motifs. By no stretch of the imagination could Hopper be called an avant-gardist. Not a canvas in the Whitney's show suggests the influence of cubism, let alone abstract art, although one might be able to detect some remote Fauve echo-perhaps through Albert Marquet, whose work he saw in Paris-in Hopper's fondness for relieving a low-toned background with a sudden distant poke of primary color: a coat, a flag or the red side of a brick chimney...
...open courtyards. Hejduk also works at resolving the conflict between a symmetrical form (the nine-square grid) and the asymmetrical demands of a program for a functioning house. At first he conceals the asymmetries within the house; later, he reflects them onto the facades by arranging columns which echo interior walls...
...Alexander has been embroiled in arguments with his generals. Most of the disagreements stem from Alexander's insistence that the nation's seven-year-old all-volunteer force (AVF) is "as good or better" than the old Army, which filled its ranks mostly with draftees. The generals echo the official line in public. But in private they claim that the AVF is failing because it has had to lower standards to meet recruiting goals. Says one general of his peers: "All of them are lying when they say, 'We don't need a draft...
...issue of military registration. Both sides claim victory, but neither the government nor the leadership of the anti-registration forces expects to rest in the months ahead. Both camps are planning new assaults, priming fresh troops for the front lines. Cries of "We have not yet begun to fight" echo across the temporarily inactive battlefield...
Anti-registration/draft organizers in the Boston area echo Landau's continued enthusiasm. Joe Gerson, a Cambridge representative of the American Friends Service Committee, a national group that has worked with CARD to educate young people about registration, says the Friends will concentrate on minorities, particularly working-class Blacks, in their drive to disseminate information on the issue. "The white middle class is usually the target, but they often already know what is going on," says Gerson, adding that he will also include high school students in his counseling sessions...