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...gift included materials like brushes, paints, models, and preliminary works that once belonged to the influential Abstract Expressionist artist Barnett Newman. Fragments of his paintings—stiff canvases with strips of red, green, and blue—sit in brown boxes in the Straus Center, crucial keys to Newman??s creative past. Newman made a name for himself with bold blocks of color and vertical lines, which he termed zips. His paitnings often had punning and provocative titles, like the series “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue...
...Newman??s case studies also showed that, historically, school shootings are rarely spontaneous explosions but usually planned acts. Many shooters let off signals to get noticed, but are actually ambivalent to carrying out the deed. “Their real purpose is to gain attention and change the way the rest of the world and their peers define them and categorize them,” Newman says. “Once they’ve laid the groundwork, they end up feeling like they’ve backed themselves into a corner...and the fear of failing...
...public company—unlike Keeper Springs or Newman??s Own—Starbucks has shareholders to answer to when it comes to giving away profits. But Starbucks’ shareholders might actually support bigger donations, especially given their history of approving other socially responsible policies. Starbucks has led the industry with its efforts to promote Fair Trade Coffee and organic and shade grown coffee. Starbucks also generously gives even part-time employees health care, which is a big commitment given the rising costs of insurance...
...next stop on Oppenheimer’s b’nai mitzvah tour is further off the beaten path—Fayetteville, Arkansas, where Oppenheimer observes Jacob Newman??s bar mitzvah. With prayers led by Jacob’s mother, the bar mitzvah had a New Age feel, and a number of the attendees were not Jewish. In contrast to New York b’nai mitzvah, Oppenheimer says, the Fayateville bar mitzvah “is a natural opportunity for Jews to proclaim that they exist and to perform their existence in a way that the neighbors...
Professor of History and African and African American Studies Evelyn B. Higginbotham recalled that Newman??s knowledge of the issues related to the field they shared was encyclopedic itself...