Word: musts
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Helen Frankenthaler, whose semiretrospective of 40 paintings opens this week at New York City's Museum of Modern Art and will travel after Aug. 20 to museums in Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Detroit, must now be America's best- known living woman artist. She is only 60, but she was precocious, and her career has been long. Among women artists associated with abstract expressionism, she stands second only to the late Lee Krasner. You could never claim that she has Krasner's emotional range as a painter: pessimism, anger, every abrasive emotion are caught in some inner filter before...
...with color, vigilantly monitoring the exact recession of a blue or the jump of a yellow, the imbricated weight of a dark area against the open glare of unpainted canvas. Color is the chief subject of her pictorial intelligence, her main vehicle of feeling. But every patch of color must have a bounding edge, and Frankenthaler's edges tend to wobble; they are overcomplicated; in some paintings, like Flood, 1967, they just go limp. She is undistinguished as a drafter -- in fact, some of her mature style is an evasion of drawing -- and this helps account for the pulpy side...
Undergraduates avoid blaming themselves for their failure to be educated. But they must bear much of the responsibility. When asked what he found most surprising about Harvard, a visiting professor from Australia replied: "It's the students. Most of them are rather dull. They sit in the back and don't ask any questions...
...somehow, some people stumble out of Harvard with an education without peer. This must be attributed to those individuals among the student body and the faculty who are willing to take on the senseless obstacles Harvard places before them. As this University grows older, will a Harvard education mean anything at all but a few scratchings on a piece of sheepskin...
...Action must follow acknowledgement, student activists remind us, but the faculty has yet to realize...