Word: presenters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more properly to Frankenthaler's atmosphere-laden abstract paintings of the '80s, with their elaborately swoony brushwork and cunning embellishments of not-quite- naturalistic light. They are very assured but seem a touch overpleased with their own sensitivity. Yet it would be a pity, all the same, if the present decade's recoil from the inflated historical claims made for color-field painting stopped one from enjoying this show...
...GOOD TIMES by Russell Baker (Morrow; $19.95). What propelled Baker from the childhood he so memorably described in Growing Up (1982) to his present distinction as a columnist for the New York Times? Here is the answer, in a winsome memoir of early newspapering days, including big-league stints in London and Washington...
...like a romantic tragedy, there are two actors present here whose flaws lead to disaster. Not only do students hide from challenges, but their university refuses to challenge them. Harvard no longer presumes to tell undergraduates what they need to learn, believing they will somehow find the correct education on their own. The University should win renown as the World's Greatest University, as well as the World's Worst Teacher...
...fact for students is this: a community does not learn to resolve the past's legacy of anger and injustice by ignoring the problem in the present. We cannot understand our neighbor if we never see him. That only 1.8 percent of Harvard's just under 400 senior faculty are Black is troubling, nearly outrageous...
...problem extends beyond the present. The lack of academic role models for underrepresented groups only guarantees the dearth of future academics, as admitted in the case of women by the Government department last month...