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This year's Rembrandt book. The text by Art Scholar Horst Gerson is for the most part mercifully purged of art history jargon. Eighty big color reproductions (book size: 14¾ in. by 11¼ in.) have been carefully printed to reduce the yellow cast of ancient varnish that customarily obscures Rembrandt's backgrounds. The result, though it sometimes gives the impression that the paintings have just been overzealously cleaned and scraped, offers a rare chance to linger over details normally lost in murk. Weight: 10½ pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Christmas Shelf: Bigness and Beauty | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

Lifton's account of Mao would be far more powerful if it were not for the "psychological idiom" in which he couches it. Indeed throughout the book, one has an annoying sense that jargon is making the obvious complicated. This problem, of course, is endemic to the psychological approach to social science, and would not be too great a price to pay for a comprehensive account of the Cultural Revolution. If Lifton's is not comprehensive, it probably comes as close as any unitary scheme can. Until China opens up to the West, and maybe for a long time thereafter...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Revolutionary Immortality | 11/20/1968 | See Source »

Preposterous as it now sounds, this arch-enemy of jargon and cant almost became an attorney. Perhaps he thought the law would satisfy those obscurantist tendencies which later found their gratification in an extensive collection of the least-known 18th century American writings. Until the spring of his senior year, 1949, he was set to be a lawyer; then he changed his mind, turned down a place at the Law School, and went off to study history at Columbia. Back at Harvard a year later, still desulting about, he fell under the spell of Perry Miller. For a decade that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alan E. Heimert | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...pick apart with careful semantics on the clear white page of the newspaper sounds a lot better when Rudd says it into a bullhorn under the towering buildings that make up Columbia's campus. Rudd is a revolutionary leader, and a pretty good one. Using the kind of movement jargon that keeps the revolutionaries at home with each other (such as calling everyone "brother") and by taking a tough stand against all "undemocratic" institutions at Columbia, he has held the Left together...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Mark Rudd | 9/30/1968 | See Source »

...class bias, complains Dr. Hiawatha Harris, a black Los Angeles psychiatrist. He cites a young Negro candidate who went through two-thirds of the questions before he came to a subject that he knew anything about. That was science. The other questions were cultural, covering (among other things) yachting jargon and French expressionist painting. "Medical schools have been judging black applicants on an equal basis with whites in an effort to be fair," says Harris, "but we are going to have to recognize differences because black students have not come up in the same cultural environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: THE PLIGHT OF THE BLACK DOCTOR | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

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