Word: ets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Systems and Signs. There is no longer any difficulty in seeing the best of pop as a mannered game with art language, rather than a vulgarian's assault on le beau et le bien. Ten years ago, Art Historian Robert Rosenblum predicted that "the initially unsettling imagery of pop art will quickly be dispelled by the numbing effects of iconographical familiarity, and ephemeral or enduring pictorial values will become explicit...
...With or without a supersell, Fitzgerald's Gatsby is a masterpiece. I for one expect to see a masterpiece, not because "Ballantine's was there," but because Scott was. If Yablans, Evans, et al., have remained true to Fitzgerald's Gatsby, Paramount will have its blockbuster; if not, no amount of visual beauty can save...
After the Yale Political Union halted plans for the debate last weekend in a 200-190 vote, a conservative Yale alumni group, Lux et Veritas, began talking about scheduling the debate under its own auspices. Despite criticism from Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. and the Yale Corporation, Lux et Veritas hunted around for a few days for a new debate opponent for Shockley. But by midweek, it, too, had dropped the idea of a new Shockley debate and is now trying to schedule a forum on what it calls the possible "erosion of traditionally liberal committment to free and open...
Shockley said yesterday that Lux et Veritas has not yet approached him about rescheduling the debate...
After Lux et Veritas announced its plans Saturday, the Yale Corporation and Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. issued statements praising the political union's action and criticizing Lux et Veritas for trying to invite Shockley to speak...