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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With other artists in the show, low energy slides into mere inconsequence. Their work is elaborately hermetic, and so looks like a manifesto. But what is being manifested? Manual labor, apparently-endless somnambulistic notations, proffering not a whit of meaning. One could possibly train ants to do it. Thus the German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven, 33, has assembled two huge panels, each made of several hundred sheets of paper scrawled with words-strings of unrelated numbers, written out in German. This arithmorrhea, she assures the catalogue reader, has nothing to do with mathematics. Nor, apparently, is it meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Eight Cool Contemporaries | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

Whether Radcliffe women continue to seek professional help in increasing numbers for any of the above reasons is a matter of endless debate. But amidst all the speculations, what clearly emerges in conversation with both the staff of Psychology and Psychiatry is women's concerns about relationships with men. Powell says, "It is very rare for me to see a woman who is concerned about academic problems. What we don't see, generally speaking, is women who come in with problems related to work that they feel they can't handle. It's more of what am I going...

Author: By Joy Horowitz, | Title: Harvard's Busy Mental Health Bureaucracy | 11/6/1974 | See Source »

...that never comes to much. Nabokov uses his literary persona as license to play various sorts of games with words while avoiding the standard obligations of fiction writing, like characterization. A bit of solid, readable narrative would seem a relief to even the most liberal-thinking of readers after endless pages of more or less dazzling feats of verbal fancy on the order...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: For Little Nabokovs | 10/22/1974 | See Source »

...must wonder how long Stoeckel can keep up with this tenuous tie to the pigskin. How he can wait out the endless winter months in search of a fleeting spot on a 32-man roster. But until you see him cheering as chalkboard dream unfolds into a T.D. or smiling as the defensive unit mows down an illfated sweep, you can't chide him when he says "For me right now football is the thing that means the most, in my life. I've just go to give it another shot...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Creme dela Cramer | 10/17/1974 | See Source »

...someone uninvolved in rowing, all this talk about racing more than six months away must seem ridiculously premature. But, to an oarsman, such aspirations get him through long winter hours in the tanks, endless ergometer pieces, and, in the early spring, powering down the Charles frozen to his oar with the coach's launch scouting ahead for still floating...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Coach Parker's Crew Squad: Another Championship Season? | 10/10/1974 | See Source »

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