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...NAT WELCH...
...tabloid Voice (circ. 150,000) has earnestly chronicled the peculiarities of New York City life, its iconoclastic eye quick to spot problems of the underdog. Unremittingly quarrelsome, wordy and underedited, the Voice also captures the funky, ingrown perspective of Greenwich Village. Its reviewers, including such first-rate critics as Nat Hentoff and Andrew Sarris, dig up underground entertainment far from Broadway or first-run moviehouses. Columns by Militant Lesbian Jill Johnston flow endlessly, devoid of all punctuation, capitalization and-usually-sense...
...scientific ignorance of politicians, businessmen, and everyone else except scientists themselves, promises to be devastating. Sir Charles's solution: Future scientists ought to read books, and more important, other students should receive at least the rudiments of a scientific education. I first read this lecture-essay for a Nat Sci course in my freshman year, and at the time I wanted to say to this world authority, "So what's new, boobala...
...Thoreau was a natural scientist as well as a machine-breaker and Henry Miller, though he studied (on his own) enough science to pass ten Nat Sci courses still passionately wanted to dynamite the whole industrial face of Brooklyn and let the splinters fall into the polluted Hudson River. Familiarity didn't breed anything but contempt...
Grand Displacement. "It seems to me," he reflected, "that It Is more nat ural to make subject X coincide with a painting that one gets to know rather than to make painting X coincide with a known subject." Composition, in short, gives us our sense of reality. In this way, Gris was the most formal of all the cub ists. Picasso's formality was modified by his enormous appetite, Braque's by his aristocratic fervor, Leger's by his blunt populism, but Gris was obsessed by shape and only by shape...