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...Phillip Altbach, national chairman of the Student Peace Union continues the symposium on the student movement with a piece that says nothing at all. Well, perhaps that is unfair to Mr. Altbach, who manages to use the word commit(ment) five times in three paragraphs, and urges student leaders to be sly because they are ultimately dependent on adults for respectability, money, co-operation and support...
...Blacks has been used to titillate rather than challenge. The result is intellectual exploitation of a currently catchy theme. It becomes off-beat, not serious, hip, not important. Irony wins, not Genet: in a community that virtually exiles its militant Negro leader, Robert Williams, and castigates A. Phillip Randolph, The Blacks remains the most successful off-Broadway show...
Movie number one is the thriller. A young, destitute American has been commissioned by a wealthy Californian to lure his expatriate son Phillip away from Italy and Marge, a beautiful but suspect art student. Hating his sadistic charge and envious of his wealth, Tom murders him, disposes of his body and in a dangerous game of impersonation, seeks to substitute himself for his victim...
Some of the blame must rest with whoever edited the book for Braziller. For example, criticism of the American Ambassadors, Arthur Gardner, Earl E. T. Smith, and Phillip Bonsal is interspersed throughout the volume, and had it been collected and discussed within one chapter, a far clearer statement of what Ambassadorial responsibilities entail would have resulted...
...show was the idea of Phillip Lewis, the museum's curator of primitive art, and the 31 pieces came from some 500,000 objects in the museum's collection. "Primitive art in general tends to be rather static," says Lewis. "But when these craftsmen were given the impetus of a new people, they were released from the static view of their own society. There is no question that the colonists had an impact upon their art." Lewis believes that some of the sculptures may have been made to be sold to the whites, but if the show proves...