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Latvian-born Painter Hyman Bloom recites this legend in self-defense when critics complain of his fondness for painting corpses. If they persist he counters: "One must take a pessimistic view of society as it stands today...
...there will be a day of reckoning. Perhaps this is an effort to wear me out.* That is not the proper conduct of an attorney. It may wind up by breaking me down, though I hope it doesn't. I tell you now-stop it! . . .If you persist you must take the consequences...
...alumnus said, "Must you fellows persist in publicizing cheesecake? Next spring I expect you to dramatize the Kinsey report...
Mansfield Lonie, of the National Bureau of Standards, is involved in commercial anthropometry. His job, he said, is to set up scientific size standards for the clothing industry. So far, he has had poor cooperation. Clothiers, particularly women's dress manufacturers, refuse to face anthropometric facts. They persist in designing garments on "model forms" which have little resemblance to real female bodies. They assume that women will change their shapes with the shifting moods of fashion. It makes life pretty difficult, Mr. Lonie hinted, for a serious anthropometrist...
...telegram." For adult students he can't accommodate, he has set up four "neighborhood colleges" in Louisville public libraries. He has plans for putting college courses on records to be broadcast, has visions of 30,000 students taking a single course all at one time. "Colleges which persist in lecturing to small groups," says he, "are in the Dark Ages. A general college education of at least two years must become an American birthright...