Word: koch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With this bit of dialogue, Poet Kenneth Koch begins a beatnik playlet, which was produced off Broadway last March, on how the American Revolution was won. Last week, posted in large letters on one wall of Manhattan's Martha Jackson Gallery, the script served to accompany one of the nuttier art exhibitions of the season. Throughout the gallery stand nearly life-size wooden cutouts of Washington and his horse, Washington and the cherry tree, Washington crossing the Delaware...
They are the work of Alex Katz, a young man who in the last three years has achieved quite a reputation as a figure painter. These cutouts, which were the stage sets for Koch's play, are a side line for Katz-huge toy soldiers, a kind of instant folk art, that would be fine if everyone concerned did not insist on taking them seriously. "I like to mix what people and experts say can't be mixed," says Katz. "I like to take a vulgar social thing or idea like these cutouts and give them something else...
...political prisoner who claimed to have been "unfairly and wrongly" convicted by her countrymen in a 1951 war crimes trial, members of the European Commission on Human Rights not only rejected the plea but also damned it as a "manifest abuse" of their time. The appel lant: Lifer Use Koch, 54, better known during World War II as the "Bitch of Buchenwald...
First they say students should sex, and then they say they shouldn't. In the Jan. Campus Illustrated, Dr. Leo Koch advised students to sex freely. But in the February number, there arises a champion of virtue in the person of Jayne Mansfield, no less...
Students should, however, "participate selectively," Koch says. This means three things: "they should not sex without contraceptives; they should not sex with strangers; and they should not sex for the wrong reasons"--which, Mother points out, means they really can't sex much more than they used...