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Also, Gassy Lamentation. Today, Author Hecht believes, "the artist is a vanishing figure . . . Individualism has dried up." All the girls, he complains, have become "masculinized," all the men soft as blubber. Police state government bleeds the citizen with taxes, relentlessly watches his every move. It is a far cry from...
If Hecht had confined his autobiography to a personal record of such activities, it would have made more interesting reading. But he has padded it with feats of overblown metaphor ("My throat is sick with too much living, as if I had swallowed a long stove pipe") and bursts of...
To those who read your editorial "Arts and the Man" (Friday, March 5, 1954), I would like to offer my reaction to it and a partial justification for the ostensibly unsympathetic attitude of the Department of Fine Arts. First, this editorial, though apparently generalized in discussing "the Fine Arts department...
The editorial on the Fine Arts department was intended neither as a "masked lamentation" for the departure of one professor nor as an "emotional slander." Instead, it pointed out that Fine Arts is not getting the number of concentrators, particularly of high calibre students, which it deserves. This lack of...
Quotations by the tear-laden gentry of our nation's colleges would have us believe that we are now in a period in which the educator lives in deadly fear of criticism and social and economic ostracism . . . Dean Ackerman's . . . fear of the loss of liberty is what...