Word: hoffmann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anatomizing Mother-in-Law. Rivers started out as a jazz musician. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music, plays the saxophone with a jazz combo called the Upper Bohemians. But shortly after being discharged from the Army Air Corps in 1943, he signed up in Hans Hoffmann's painting classes. Rivers proved a hip but argumentative pupil. The canvas rectangle was then viewed as a neutral battleground whose every square inch must show the vital push and pull of his artistic struggle. How was it, Rivers wanted to know, that the greats of the past were good even...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government and one of the program's speakers, and Ralph Balerlein, instructor in Physics and leader of the Faculty committee organizing the project, predicted yesterday that hundreds of students and teachers from Harvard and other colleges would attend the discussion...
...Hoffmann said yesterday that "it is invaluable, even for SDS types, to hear the Administration's position, because they think people in the Administration are either monsters or idiots...
...Very little has been said about how we got into the war." Hoffmann said "and students will be better able to support or criticize the Administration's position if they know what's going...
...Hoffmann said such a move would alter the military situation in South Vietnam itself without risking massive Chinese or North Vietnamese intervention...