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...Saturday dance, the committee had hired an entire castle in Ipswich. The fortress consisted of a huge ballroom on the ground floor, and upper stories which contained a myriad of considerably smaller suites for the use of Jubilee's patrons. The committee hired about 30 buses and thoughtfully provided free mixer to mitigate the annoyance of a rather long ride. The bus drivers, however, were considerably less amused and once at the destination they emulated a good number of their passengers and many became totally inebriated. The bus company, which shall remain unnamed here, sent out another busload of more...
...parietals to allow for private dorm parties. For Saturday afternoon, the committee rented an entire island in Boston harbor. Party boats ran continually to shuttle celebrants to what was once an old Civil War prison. The outdoor barbecue; free sandwiches and mixer, the large open fields, the myriad of abandoned cells and passageways, and a tour given by Boston's most eccentric historian added yet another dimension to a growing Jubilee tradition...
...wall four hours later and proceeded to create stately, bold, blaring, cherry, apricot, pale gold, mauve, maroon, crimson, orange, cinnamon, whistling blue sails of forms. No gimmicks or gadgetry here, thank you. Carefully avoiding dehumanization and de-sexualization (in the painterly tradition), I strove to leave out as many myriad forms and colors as was possible. When finished, the wall seemed to cry out: "My name is Pat O'Connor-and goddammit, I can paint as well as Helen Frankenthaler...
...will not be easy. Tax exemptions and exclusions have seldom been repealed. Instead, in the past 50 years, Congress has opened myriad new tax shelters to accommodate taxpayers who feel aggrieved by somebody else's privilege. An unfortunate result is mind-numbing complexity: the present Revenue Code (1,200 pages) runs longer than War and Peace. Albert Einstein called the federal income tax "the hardest thing in the world to understand." Contemplating his own return, he remarked: "This is too difficult for a mathematician, It takes a philosopher...
Greenberg encouraged Helen in her habit of tearing up canvases that were too easy or familiar. His critical mark is best symbolized today not in the myriad lilting forms and colors that she puts upon her canvas, but in the ones she leaves out. Her work incorporates empty spaces that are often more forceful and outspoken than the painted ones. In The Human Edge, for example, the real Frankenthaler is to be found-not in the weighty banner forms that hang down from the top, but in the horizontal rectangle of white that lies beneath and behind them.The whole picture...