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...other European entries shared Tapies' individualism; the vast majority looked like imitations of American abstract expression, seemed to indicate that a 'herd of mavericks is more herd than maverick. As developed by Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and half a dozen more, notably Jackson Pollock (see above), U.S. abstract expression might be compared to the hamburger and the Coke, which have also taken the world by storm. Hamburgers and Cokes are excellent in their ways, and so is abstract expression-but luckily the nation has other nourishment to offer as well...
Bold Journey (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). It sounds a little silly-delivering a herd of Nubian milk goats to French Equatorial Africa-but the Cincinnati Zoo's Dr. Byron Bernard thought Dr. Albert Schweitzer could use them, and he has this film to prove...
Does the Academic Procession sometimes resemble an Oklahoma land rush for prestige and pay, with an unseemly flapping of gowns and gums as scholars jostle for position? In a book that seems likely to make the organization scholar a notorious subspecies of the herd-running Organization Man, Sociologists Theodore Cap-low and Reece J. McGee examine the rush as it is run at ten unnamed major universities. The authors of The Academic Marketplace (Basic Books; $4.95) find schools and scholars ridden with intrigue and lustful for prestige, often indifferent to teaching and scholarship...
...success has inspired imitators; two new open-end investment funds and several Wall Street-type firms are now busily stimulating the securities market. From his marble-walled Rio office and his spacious Copacabana Beach home, Dauphinot is looking beyond Brazil for other back roads for his thundering jeep-herd to travel. Newest challenge: the undeveloped capital markets of Argentina...
...this foaming by the Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men is the result of overpopulation, the taking of oneself too seriously, and the herd instinct to compare one's lot with one's fellow...