Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article on air pollution [Jan. 27] is a timely call for immediate action to combat an evil about which too much is said and too little done. Man's greatest problem has always been one of resisting some form of self-destruction, and the threat posed to life on earth by pollution is certainly more serious than most of us would even privately admit...
...Your article regarding the dismissal of California's President Clark Kerr [Jan. 27] is disturbing in its lack of perception. Dr. Kerr most certainly did not "lose his cool" during the 1964 demonstrations at Berkeley, nor has he since. If anything, he lost the deserved, rational support of the news media and moderate public in California, who were willing to allow the hue and cry of a few brief, sophomoric disturbances to obscure the significant miracle of Berkeley's steady rise to first place among the nation's-and probably the world's-graduate schools...
...Three cheers for your excellent Essay on art today [Jan. 27]. I recently completed a course in modern art in hopes that I might gain some appreciation for the currently hailed art trends. However, I was completely disillusioned with the hodgepodge of junk that supposedly caters to the American taste. I can find beauty in the colors of Pollock, design in the geometric abstraction of Malevitch, and esthetic reasons for the distortions of Picasso; however, I can find no purpose in pop art or minimal art. Previously, I thought that I just wasn't with it; now I know...
Kennedy started out Jan. 25 ahead of 16 other members of Congress bound for a seminar on Anglo-American af fairs at Ditchley Park in England.* By the time he returned at the end of last week, he had touched down in London, Paris, Bonn and Rome; he had talked with prime ministers and foreign ministers, Charles de Gaulle and Pope Paul, students and showfolk and assorted beautiful people. With an eye to future change, he saw opposition leaders too. Bobby also wanted to meet Mai Van Bo, the North Vietnamese envoy in Paris, but U.S. embassy officials dissuaded...
President Johnson appointed the 20-man commission last summer, when criticism of the draft flooded newspapers and magazines. It was expected to present its report Jan. 1, six months before the current Selective Service Law expires. But several times commission members exercised their right to reopen debate on questions previously settled and the work dragged on. Burke Marshall, former chief of the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department, chaired the commission...