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"It is a grave mistake to encumber federal aid with restrictions which impose uniform requirements on matters of educational policy, unless such requirements are so imperative as to leave no room for honest debate or difference of opinion." Daly wrote Planing down to specifies he claimed higher proportions of women...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: Does Harvard Lobby, Or Doesn't It? | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

Described in terms of what it is not, Don Judd's sculpture must inevitably sound cold and vacuous-a Pandora's box of absences. But Judd, at 42, is possibly the most influential sculptor of his generation. His austere and intensely deliberate art has proved a disinfectant, sluicing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Exquisite Minimalist | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

Like T. S. Eliot, with whom he has a deep affinity, Stravinsky always worked to burn through the opiates and aphrodisiacs which unremittingly encumber clear, precise thought. He reiterates the lesson of all great artists, that vigor comes from continuity, from the regenerative originality which only a sense of history...

Author: By M. CHRIS Rochester, | Title: Igor Stravinsky Retrospectives and Conclusions | 5/20/1970 | See Source »

>State constitutions should be shorn of "limitations that prevent constructive legislative and executive action" and of the hundreds of absurdly inconsequential statutes that now encumber many of them. North Carolina's constitution, for example, prohibits male and female prisoners from sharing the same jail cell. Alabama's and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The States: In Bad Shape | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

Sophisticated? Well, not really. But fast, smart, shrewdly directed and capably performed. And though the film will scarcely eradicate the sex and violence that encumber contemporary movies, it may at least persuade producers that sick subjects may be profitably proffered with a healthy laugh.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Once More Unto the Breach | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

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