Word: profs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PROF.) Louis H. MACKEY Rice University Houston...
...makeup, with her voice pitched well below the belt, Liz as Martha is loud, sexy, vulgar, pungent, and yet achieves moments of astonishing tenderness. Only during sustained eruptions does she lapse into monotony, or look like an actress play-acting animosity instead of feeling it. As the ambitious young prof whose blueprint for success includes "plowing a few pertinent wives," George Segal exudes callow opportunism assuredly. And Broadway's Sandy Dennis slyly interprets Segal's child bride as a sickly amoeba struggling to assert herself among dragons...
Fear of Another Kind. Juxtapositions of paintings also suggest hitherto unexpected correspondences. In the decade 1925 through 1934 are works by such divergent artists as that arcane, Swiss-born Bauhaus prof, Paul Klee, the Chicago anatomist of decay, Ivan Albright, the tragic expressionist Arshile Gorky, and the U.S.'s clown-painting Walt Kuhn. In paintings executed within a three-year span, each depicts man masked in dreadful isolation...
...instructive styles. None of TIME'S ten teachers, for example, court popularity, but none go farther in scorning it than Amherst's Arnold Arons, 49, who has created a demanding course in math and physics that all freshmen must take. He flunks more frosh than any other Amherst prof, barks "You are an idiot" at boys who were high school valedictorians. An arbitrary egotist, he has inspired student dart boards on which his photograph is the bull's-eye. Arons' scathing answer to his student critics is that "they create certain myths to rationalize their own inadequacies." He seems proud...
...Prof's Pride