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Last week the man seemed to be everywhere. There was an exhibit of his drawings in Paris, a show of lithographs in Holland. France's Musée des Arts Décoratifs is planning a major retrospective, and a gallery in the West German city of Hannover has just opened a display of 88 works that left visitors wavering between awe and revulsion. In Manhattan, World House Galleries was holding a Dubuffet retrospective of its own-a modest (41 works) but well-selected sampling of a strange career...
...terror of the kamikazes roaring out of the blue like the thunderbolts that Zeus hurled at bad actors in the days of old." And to take Iwo Jima as a perch for fighters escorting B-29 attacks on Honshu, the Navy's land-fighting arm fought what General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith called "the most savage and the most costly battle in the history of the Marine Corps...
...range of activities in the fifty universities makes comparison of their available number (3 per cent) with the total figure of institutions misleading. While much talent does pass by local schools for the wealthier ones, it does not do so because of any devious recruiting by several academic Oklahomas. Holland states that need analysis and standardized stipends "cement" the concentration of talent; yet this suggestion that all schools should bid for talent in a scholarship market-place would make a student's choice of college a narrowly financial affair...
...Holland's claim of impossible competition for talent and his assertion that admissions procedures are eliminating creative students contradict one another. If, as he claims, there is little relation between postcollegiate success and test scores, then the wealthiest colleges that, he says, rely upon these figures could hardly be denying the poorer schools potentially eminent graduates. Admissions procedures that eliminate the creative student are hardly unique to this group of universities, but Holland has chosen to level these unrelated charges solely against them. Over-emphasis on preparation is a prevalent evil, but it has nothing to do with concentration...
...claim that scholarship students come largely from upper-middle income brackets is also quite valid, as the Admissions Office here is so keenly aware. But Holland uses only the word "prestigious" to show the causes of this trend; he uses the word in the different senses of fame, popularity and high quality and thus gives a muddled analysis of the motivations of applicants and the relation between their social status and preparation...