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With regard to the article "Sinking a Name" [May 10], please note that the Corpus Christi (Body of Christ) telephone directory lists: the Corpus Christi Flea Market, the Corpus Christi Mud Pit Services, the Corpus Christi Amusement Co., the Corpus Christi Speedway, and the Corpus Christi Pistol and Rifle Club. Where is the righteous indignation of Bishop Drury over these slurrings of the sacrament of the Eucharist...
...Wesselmann, Andy Warhol, Robert Longo-nor as a generalized hieroglyph for "expressionist" feeling, as in de Kooning or the new German painters. Such painting wants to inspect and describe the body as a real object in the world, in all its resistances, its actualities, its peculiar landscapes of pit and pore and hair. It wants to move outward from that to see its social relations and, perhaps, its allegorical uses, but it is invariably tied to some conception of realism. This is the painting that always gets condescendingly rediscovered when people talk about "realist revivals...
...says, "You can plow snow, but not mud. There's not much you can do about mud except wait for it to go away. The only thing to do is add gravel-18 inches is a pretty good surface-but mud season occurs before the town gravel pit melts...
...Association meeting when Dr. Counter stood at the back of the room and took down names, again, mainly of freshmen as they left while informing them that there were paid positions available through him in a local tutoring program. Dr. Counter has also made statements that would tend to pit one minority group against another...
Richmond, a math whiz, happily noted that she has "known since eighth grade" that she wanted to attend Harvard, but Toulmin--an avid bellringer--simply said that she liked Cambridge better than New Haven, which she described as a "pit," and Brown, which she felt was "too Californian...