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...show offers many Peales, Copleys, Eakinses and Stuarts, a delightful Epstein bust of John Dewey and a droll Manship version of John D. Rockefeller. But artistically, the exhibition as a whole is unfortunately at least 50% junk. In their zeal to obtain a painted likeness of every last historical figure, the directors of the exhibition have been forced to fall back upon dozens of oil portraits that are either pitifully inept, cloyingly sentimental, or else the sort of sycophantic banalities that normally decorate board rooms and government antechambers...
...BRIAN EPSTEIN may have put the Beatles in suits, but their sound and their hair was still their own, and so was their stage presence, their "larking about." And it communicated something many of us hadn't tasted before, something wild, exuberant, playful, young, funny, and joyous...
...SERIOUSLY, by Screenwriter Julius J. Epstein (Tall Story). Screenwriter faces life...
This summer Epstein used federal and foundation grants to hold month-long seminars at Tufts University for 13 Negro teachers of molecular biology and physiology. He also brought in ten black freshmen from Tennessee A. & I. to take the experimental course. They came to understand the papers as well as his students at Brandeis, Epstein discovered, and they did so faster. This is partly because the method places more emphasis on understanding the scientists' techniques than on reading comprehension. One girl even suggested an experimental technique similar to one that had led to a breakthrough in molecular genetics...
...Epstein feels that if this "head start" approach to the teaching of science spreads, more research-oriented professors will willingly teach undergraduates. For most of them, the chance to explain their life's work is no chore...