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...aversity" with an enrollment of 42,541 and an annual budget of more than $100 million. Critics point out that Hannah began building the reputation of M.S.U. by building a championship football team, and that the school's freewheeling recruiting tactics earned N.C.A.A. censure in 1964. They sometimes overlook the fact that Hannah has also succeeded in recruiting many bright young professors by paying some of the highest beginning salaries of any Midwestern university...
...called upon to copy older paintings or even to try to improve on them. A minority illuminate their topic unforgettably. By penciling a Dali-like goatee and mustache onto a reproduction of the Mono Lisa, Marcel Duchamp made it difficult for anyone looking at the lady thereafter to overlook either the pompous reverence with which she is surrounded or Leonardo's decidedly ambivalent attitude toward women. More recently, Miro, Magritte, Johns, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Arman, Bruce Nauman and Walter de Maria have in various ways dealt memorably with the subject...
...there reigns a vast and unusual variety of contemporary heroes. The Italians idolize Grand Prix drivers, artists, novelists and occasionally Sicilian banditti. They fall barely short of adoring Nino Benvenuti, the boxing champion. They lavish attention on their celebrated movie directors-Antonioni, Fellini, Rossellini. And who, of course, could overlook Gina or Sophia...
Actually, the voter's dilemma tends to be exaggerated by the current hunger for a presidential hero, an exciting idealist (or at least simplifier), who could strip down the era's complexities and articulate a national vision. What frustrated voters may overlook is the fact that great Presidents have generally been more pragmatic than idealistic. Lincoln stayed aloof from the moral absolutes of the abolitionists-and he, not they, abolished slavery. In this sense, an undecided voter might well focus on the candidate who seems most capable of putting together a viable political coalition, working with Congress, mobilizing...
...four main galleries loom theatrically over the concrete-paved concourse. Inside, visitors pass through a spacious 35-ft.-high central court, then climb to the galleries on a swirling, circular stairway. They can promenade from one gallery to the next without descending, thanks to glass-curtained, connecting bridges that overlook both court and outdoor plaza. Pei believes that such bridges give a "change of pace" between exhibition rooms. "Besides," he adds, "in a museum your eyes need a rest...