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...Jacob Brackman's "Silhouette" of me in CRIMSON Dec. 14. It is not especially thoughtful of Mr. Brackman to report the carefully considered argument of a person on a sober issue as if he were reviewing the performance of an actor of a stage, and then to say, "Mr. Goodman has chosen to become a personality." I have made no such choice. Supposing Mr. Brackman were wrong in his perception and was projecting a TV-ideology of his own, or perhaps some anxiety that he felt during the evening, would he not, on reflecting, be ashamed...
From this firmament of talent, TIME picked ten artists of brightening magnitude to show in color (see following pages). Some are well positioned: Sidney Goodman, 27, the boy Hieronymus Bosch of modern horror; Grace Hartigan, 41, who models her environment in color; John Hultberg, 41, vanguard California figurativist; Paul Jenkins, 40, maker of iridescent mental landscapes; Theodores Stamos, 41, abstract expressionist. And there are others who seek their own place in the zodiac...
...McKenzie of the Mound City Blue Blowers was the Benny Goodman of the kazoo and the Harry James of the musical comb, the man who made it a beautiful thing to be a comb player. The sound of McKenzie's melodic bzzz drifted off in the '30s, but his name is now revered in Cambridge, Mass., where Harvard students crowd into the Club 47 to hear the music of McKenzie's spiritual heirs: Jim Kweskin and His Jug Band. On washtub, kazoo, stovepipe, scrub board and comb, Kweskin's band plays old-fashioned "good time" music...
...impossible for us to know what it costs Goodman, in a deeply personal sense, to advance the intellectual and social views that he holds. What support would sustain a man of his opinions, if he were denied his special brand of contact? If he is seductive or exploitative in many ways, so are the values against which he is fighting. "Life," as he told the forum, "gets you coming or going." Perhaps he is painfully aware of the elements in his own character that he condemns in others; his complexity is elusive. "I yield to no one in my cotempt...
...Goodman becomes a lecturer famous for his perversities, patronized for his vulgarity and self-exposure, then his problematic personality is bound to overshadow his scholarship. Paul Goodman is too important a thinker to become another sideshow...