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...first serious contact with modernism, however, came at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, under the abrasive tutelage of the former Bauhaus instructor Josef Albers. The friendships he formed at Black Mountain--with painters Franz Kline and Cy Twombly, composer John Cage, dancer Merce Cunningham--continued when he settled in New York City. Rauschenberg has always had the strongest possible sense of creative community; his generosity with ideas, resources, support and money became an art-world legend, growing over the years...
...aims to consolidate the Javits with other existing graduate education programs such as the Harris and GAANN programs. The resulting program would be institutional, meaning that Harvard would apply as a University, and the DOE would no longer have to evaluate the mountain of applications it receives each year from individuals...
Those close to Steve Forbes know only this about his spiritual life: he's an Episcopalian and attends St. John on the Mountain in Bernardsville, N.J. Perhaps you'd be circumspect about your faith too if your father had made you wear a kilt to Sunday services as a kid. "He hadn't given an awful lot of thought to these kinds of issues until he started running for President last year," says Forbes supporter Gordon Humphrey. Nor had Forbes spent much time communing with the more demonstrative branches of Protestantism. "As an Episcopalian, he never rubbed shoulders too much...
...costly confrontations, Forbes is recasting himself more to the Christian Coalition's liking while insisting he is not undergoing a makeover. "This is where Steve has always been," says Bill Dal Col, former campaign manager and president of the Forbes think tank. Forbes' pastor at St. John on the Mountain says Forbes has a track record of talking thoughtfully about religious subjects in the confines of his own church. In May 1994 "he gave really a remarkable speech on the subject of religion, ethics and spirituality on the one hand and corporate life and free enterprise on the other," says...
PACIFIC GROVE, Calif.--With such 1970s hits as "Rocky Mountain High," "Sunshine on My Shoulders" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads," John Denver was a wholesome, wire-rimmed hippie who turned out sunny music for cynical times...