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JESSE HELMS
While members of the arts community have decried the Helms-sponsoredregulations, an aide to the outspoken conservativesenator said last week that the guidelines werereasonable.
Loeb Drama Center Director Robert S. Brustein,a vocal critic of the Helms ammendment, said thatwhen the NEA was created, Congress acknowledgedits ignorance of the arts and delegated theresponsibility of awarding grants to the NEA andits panelists.
Both the NEA's authorization and the Helmsamendment will come up for review in September,said Virginia Falck, public affairs specialist forthe NEA. Opponents of the amendment said Congressmay remove the Helms amendment from NEA'sauthorization, or it may eliminate NEA altogether.
Words and ideas formerly on the extremes have engulfed the cultural mainstream. But have they polluted it? Many people think so. The moral right wing surely does, and it has friends in powerful places. Senator Jesse Helms fights to force artists to forswear any unwholesome intentions before receiving Government support...