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Less than Graceful. Credit for the change goes mostly to such improvements as the corneal lens, made of Plexiglas, which is lighter and simpler to fit than the old soleral variety, covers only the iris and the pupil rather than the whole eye. Researchers are adapting other materials, notably a hydrophilic plastic: invented by two Czech scientists, the new rubbery lens is so flexible it never irritates the eye, and is porous enough to be worn while asleep...
Inevitably, many a child begins by pitching his own vocal efforts too high or too low, too loud or too soft. Dr. Perdoncini and his twelve teachers are implacable about correcting a pupil's pitch until it is acceptable. The child who is born deaf may need only a year to learn how to pronounce the names of foods, toys or friends. Words for abstract ideas take longer...
...paddle; homework averages three hours a day. Entrance is by competitive exam, but the school's principal, the Rev. Robert H. Grant is committed to the idea of a comprehensive high school for youths of different intellectual capacities, and the IQs range from 75 to 130. Every pupil writes a weekly 300-word composition to counter the prevalent weakness in verbal skills. Math and science come easier because in those subjects "we are dealing with a kid's natural ability," explains the Rev. Joseph C. Verrett, vice principal. "When we get into fields loaded with cultural values...
...former pupil reproached Landowska because she had noticeably changed her interpretations over a period of ten years. Why not? asked Landowska. "What would you say of a scientist or of a painter who, like stagnant water, would stop his experimentation and remain still?" She insisted on surprise and suspense in her performances. The "tragedy" of recordings, she remarked, is that they catch "only one moment, one aspect of an interpretation when there are a thousand and one others, always different...
...ASGER JORN, 50, a Dane and a former pupil of Leger, makes art scampering with the mythical trolls who lurk in arctic forest shadows. Jorn has dissolved the haunted figures of Nolde and Munch. In his equally demoniac fantasy, man remains only as dismembered memories in a decorative dream, a roiling Rorschach test of tortured, teasing sensibilities...