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...Wyeth. It is also peculiarly modern. Says Cleveland's Lee: "At the heart of the whole modern concept of painting is the premise that technical skill is something almost anyone can acquire with effort, but great painting is a personal record of the artist for his own private ingroup, and he doesn't care about what the mass of people think...
...anything." Another student admitted that she had wasted her earlier high school years trying to "rate" among her friends. "I've learned more in these past seven weeks than I learned in the 17 years that went before," she says now. "I'm through with that 'ingroup' crap!" Most project officials are convinced that the $1,000 or so invested in each of the students this summer will bring big rewards in the saving of otherwise wasted talent and in the kids' own dis covery of their potentialities. Of the first 50 students at Western...
Gored-but Good. As a Boston Brahmin in a Texas corral (half of Johnson's twelve special assistants are Texans), Bundy is far from Johnson's ingroup. But he is fascinated, almost transfixed by the President's elemental energy and earthiness. He recognizes Johnson as the political supreme, and he has come a long way from the days when he thought of politics as a grubby little game. "A politician's life is like a bullfighter's," Bundy now says. "The bull...
...others and soon dropped out. Ten years ago, Dr. Hadden had enough patients of better-than-average education to start an all-homosexual group of three. They had already accepted Dr. Hadden as a sympathetic figure, and felt no hostility toward him or from him. Secure in their own ingroup, the men soon convinced one another of the medical fact that homosexuality is not a physiological condition present at birth but an emotional maladjustment resulting from reactions to childhood experiences. They talked little about the physical aspects of their abnormal sex life but concentrated on the psychological and social aspects...
What's mainly wrong with Texas, though, is what's wrong with all Clan pictures: the attitude of the people on the screen. They constitute an ingroup, and they seem bored with the outside world. Sometimes, perish the thought, they even seem bored with each other. They scratch, they mumble, they hack around. They appear less concerned to entertain the public than to indulge their private fantasies. Maybe they ought to call their next picture...