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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LICHTBLAU: We are not going to run out of oil, but we may run out of suppliers who are willing to give us more, even if it is available. Oil can be denied either for political reasons or because a country simply has no economic interest in increasing production. That is the danger...
Whatever else happened to Cassandra, there is no record of her going broke, and that fate does not seem to be in store for the latter-day doomsayers either. With their books and pricey newsletters, their investment advisory services and conferences at celebrated wateringholes, the professional pessimists are mining hard cash out of their predictions of catastrophe...
...wavelengths punctuated by silence and bursts of static. The work responds to an edgy sensibility: Europe of the '20s and '30s, and Northern Europe at that, the dictators' playground. When the Mediterranean world appears, it is not the, sumptuous place imagined by Matisse or Picasso, but either Catalonia or the seedier Levantine environment of Cavafy's Alexandria. Its heroes, whose ghostly presences are often quoted in Kitaj's paintings, are the shipless helmsmen of modernism, the rootless cosmopolitans like the couple in Where the Railroad Leaves the Sea (1964). Kitaj paints wandering Jews and victims...
...every dreary or rambunctious pupil is a genius, by any means. About 3% of the nation's students are thought to be gifted, measured either by intelligence tests or a special flair for subjects such as mathematics or foreign languages. Special programs for gifted students receive only token funding compared with programs for the handicapped and disadvantaged. Illinois, for example, spends $740 per child to educate its 220,000 handicapped, but only $40 per child for its approximately 70,000 gifted students. The disparity is largely due to the notion that the gifted will flourish on their...
...violinist criticized today's popular music. "Every six months it's something different--either punk, hunk, stunk or bunk," Stern said...