Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assembly v. Conference. Last year, France and Belgium had suggested formation of a "consultative assembly" as a first step toward a Western Union parliament. The matter had been referred to a committee of five (Britain, France and the Benelux nations). The French, who took the role of the hare in the race toward union (if race it was), wanted an assembly whose delegates would directly represent their countries' population. They would vote publicly, without regard to the nations' official policies. They could not commit their governments to action; they could, however, stir up public opinion at home...
...carvings were on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery this week, across the street from Josef Albers' two shows (see above). Like Albers, Arp chose never to "sully nature" with recognizable subject matter, but there the resemblance ended. While Albers' paintings looked like a number of things, Arp's sculptures looked like nothing at all-which was just the way Arp and his tight, bright circle of admirers wanted them. Albers' work was mathematically precise; Arp's cloudy figures were elaborately pointless: in all their polished bulges, holes, twists and suave concavities there was nothing...
...faculty committee, Butterworth and Phillips finally admitted party membership. The committee decided that was not cause for dismissal. The committee also cleared the three who had admitted to onetime membership. But Professor-Gundlach, who still would not say yea or nay, was another matter entirely. The committee recommended he be dismissed for his very evasiveness...
Junior class President Joan Anable '50 first brought the matter up at the Student Council meeting January 5--at which Miss Sherman was present. Several girls had suggested staging the dance at the Somerset and Miss Anable asked for the Council's reaction. Council referred the matter to the administration, adding that Student Government could in no way aid the classes, should a monetary loss be incurred...
Aiken, who was an associate of Phillips when he taught at the University of Washington in 1945, commented that "While I do not agree with Professor Phillips' political views, the primary matter is not the expression of any particular set of convictions, but academic independence...