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...These Americans are a peculiar people. If, in a local community, a citizen becomes aware of a human need which is not being met, he thereupon discusses the situation with his neighbors. Suddenly a committee comes into existence. The committee thereupon begins to operate on behalf of the need and a new community function is established. It is like watching a miracle, because these citizens perform this act without a single reference to any bureaucracy, or any official agency...
...trend reflects a national tendency and is not peculiar to Harvard, Elizabeth K. Allison, associate professor of Economics, said yesterday...
...television, but television does get the crowd vote. So if you want to appeal to tastes that are more individual than mass, go to magazines. This is familiar Madison Avenue doctrine, but nowadays at long last it's working to the advantage of magazines, and with some peculiar results...
Ogni dipintore dipinge se, a Renaissance maxim ran: every painter paints himself. Steinberg's peculiar achievement has been to render this maxim, pruned of all expressionist content. What obsessively concerns him is the idea that each drawing remakes its author: it is a mask. The self-made artist is one of his favorite motifs, and certainly his most famous one: a little man grasping the pen that draws him. In this "self-portrait," artist and motif are fused, locked in a permanent logical impossibility that is also an ambition of poetry: Myself I will remake...
...representative of a time when security was not a worry and when life was slower and quieter. To some, that is the essence of Radcliffe: a peaceful part of the Harvard setting. But to others, Radcliffe still stands for women's constant struggle for equality, a struggle not peculiar to this University...