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While violently chewing my way through the March 14 issue of TIME, I happened upon a picture of my "uncle," Painter Claes Oldenburg, engaging in a "happening." My mother, who was violently washing dishes at the time, calmed down long enough to read me your article on what's happening with the "happenings." I was very interested in a remark attributed to my father, Jim Dine, to the effect that he wanted to show the violence in the home. In my ten months of life, I can recall only three violent acts committed by my father in our home...
...Claes Oldenburg's Snapshots from the City featured a garbage-strewn set of charred paper, a cardboard automobile and retching noises. "Now I'm in the Age of Paper," muses Oldenburg. "Next it may be the Age of Wood...
Thus, on her 18th birthday, was Margrethe Alexandrine Torhildur Ingrid, popularly known as Daisy, installed as Tronfolger-heir to the throne and some day Queen of Denmark, of the Wends and the Goths, Duchess of Slesvig, Holstein, Siormarn, Ditmarsken, Lauenburg and Oldenburg, and 50th sovereign of the oldest continuous kingdom in Europe...
...Responsibility. Neutrality, said Oldenburg's Evangelical Bishop D. Gerhard Jacobin, "has become absolutely impossible because wars have become total wars. In the age of democracy the individual cannot push the responsibility for war to the state. The individual is co-responsible, and the Christian must oppose wars waged for the enrichment of the state or for power . . . but in a state of emergency in which moral values are endangered, the defense of these values can be more important than life itself...
...present, physicists from the University do their Brookhaven research during the summer, between terms, or on leaves of absence. The new accelerator, when completed, will considerably enlarge the scope of their experimentation. Otto Oldenburg, professor of Physics, emeritus, said that this development "opens up a whole new area of scientific possibilities...