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...most outspoken "experts" on the painting of Morris Louis discuss his work as if it grew in total isolation from artistic influences, and, hence, has no art historical past. They align him with lesser painters (notably Kenneth Noland), they ignore all his romantic emotionality, and they explain him largely in intellectual terms. The quality of feeling in Louis' paintings is undeniable and though the influence of the intellectual approach of Noland and the critic Clement Greenberg is clear, Louis cannot be discussed as part of that movement...
Died. Hermann Joseph Muller, 76, U.S. geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in 1946 for his 1927 experiments in which he bombarded fruit flies with X rays to produce weird mutations and demonstrated long before the atomic age the effects of radiation on genes, an outspoken scientist, most recently advocating the establishment of artificial insemination banks to store the frozen sperm of gifted men to improve the human race now and in the future; of heart disease; in Indianapolis...
...news. Johnson also made a point of including the information that Board Member Charles N. Shepardson, a longtime Martin supporter, will face mandatory retirement when he reaches 70 late this month. Another sour note was struck by Texas Democrat Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking Committee and an outspoken easy-money advocate. Martin's reappointment, said Patman, will "cause this Administration much sorrow in future years...
...Harvard dorms. He later conceded that he had overstated the problem and allowed that "a degree of companionship is very important in a large impersonal college." Monro also designed Harvard's freshman seminars, served as an effective middle man between students and other top administrators. Modest but outspoken, he upgraded the vaguely defined deanship to make it one of Harvard's most influential offices...
...that significant and growing numbers of our contemporaries are deeply troubled about the posture of their government in Vietnam. We believe the state of mind of these people, although largely unreported, is of great importance, because there are many who are deeply troubled for every one who has been outspoken in dissent...