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Paul Krassner, editor of The Realist, will give a talk entitled "An Evening with a Self-Styled Phony, or I Was a Teach-in Dropout," tonight at 8:30 in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall. Proceeds will go for the support of law students working on northern and southern civil rights projects this summer...
...Frenchman who, in his addiction to brightness, persuaded his wife to wear fluorescent-hued shoes. Then, he says, "I found neon. It is living color, a color beyond color. The pen and the brush are outdated." He thinks of himself not as pop or op but as "a neon-realist." Says he: "I want everything in my work to be good-looking and brand-new. If you draw a Picasso and put neon on it, you don't have anything new." Raysse has fallen in love with painting in light: "Neon most accurately expresses modern life; it is standard...
Double Standard. By that measure, at least, even Fulbright was a realist last week. After his committee's second session on Viet Nam, the Arkansas Democrat complained: "I have never seen an issue on which there has been such uncertainty. There were no such differences in the Korean War or World War II. One reason is that this situation isn't very clear...
...this excellent translation of Os Maias, a masterpiece of his maturity, demonstrates that Eça de Queiroz was an ironic realist surpassed in total achievement only by the greatest of the great 19th century novelists...
...among the dead and dying at the Battle of Champagne in 1915, he lost his belief that man could ever know the essence of his being. Nietzsche's proclamation that "God is dead" tolled like a bell in his mind. "I changed from an idealist to a tragic realist," he said...