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This openness comes in part from what the catalog of her last big New York museum show -- at the Whitney, 20 years ago -- rather stiffly called the "landscape paradigm." Over the years, it has been landscape (its closeup detail and far extension, its variety of light and color) to which Frankenthaler's images were kin -- if not in descriptive convention, then certainly in general feeling. You know before you read the label that it is the sea, and not an abstract blue surface, that spreads out in Ocean Drive West...
...best, a subjective judgment arrived at by individuals, among whom are many who would have great difficulty admitting that Blacks were the very best in any field--except for, perhaps, Afro-American Studies, and even there some would have doubts. Such a program unavoidably and unsurprisingly mirrors the racial paradigm in society as a whole. Nevertheless, what is being slowly called into question is whether Harvard or the society which it serves is best served by such a strict meritorious system...
THIS is a useful paradigm through which to view the Undergraduate Council's decision last Sunday to bring ROTC back to campus. This vote attests to what all the doomsayers were saying about our generation, what few college liberals are willing to admit...
...collapse of the Marcos government, however, is the paradigm of present- day Philippine politics and, as such, is well told in Impossible Dream, Sandra Burton's history-as-I-lived-it account of the assassination of Aquino's husband Benigno and its aftermath. As TIME's Hong Kong bureau chief from 1982 to 1986, Burton soaked up the Philippines' maudlin, heart-tugging, cutthroat, rumor-mad, pious, unethical spirit. Her book is not only the expected political thriller, full of intriguing Filipinos and meddling Americans, but a bizarre feudal drama set in a land where Sancho Panza, not Don Quixote, tilts...
That Vietnam did not fit into the paradigm of good and evil contributed to the U.S. failure there, he said...