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...lead as the city's-and the nation's-handsomest and most dynamic showcase for contemporary U.S. art. Under the directorship of scholarly Lloyd Goodrich, the nation's ranking authority on Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, the Whitney has played host to artists as varied as Realist Andrew Wyeth and Environmentalist Louise Nevelson, while its annual displays of works by younger artists continue to spotlight the latest trends. Last week the Whitney announced that Goodrich, now 70 and with the museum since its founding in 1930, will retire...
...realist," Clayton explains, "I've recognized my responsibility to adapt to changing times." He is still fundamentally conservative. "We knew he would protect clearly defined Constitutional rights," says an N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund lawyer, "but we also knew he wouldn't make law." Clayton agrees, adding that "case law must come, if it comes at all, at the appeals level." He is now moving to that level...
...result was a drab series of social-realist novels with such command-economy titles as his 1935 potboiler. Without Stopping for Breath. Then Ehrenburg reported the Spanish Civil War for Izvestia in vivid prose that made him Russia's leading journalist...
...political realist, Moynihan realizes that genuine integration in many Northern schools is a long way off. That realization is reflected in the U.S. Office of Education's Coleman Report. "The report shows that in educational achievement, mixing helps the lower class, but does not help the middle class," notes Moynihan. "If we are going to persuade these [white, middleclass] parents to act differently, we will have to give them a powerful incentive." Like most sociologists, Moynihan feels that young Negro boys suffer from overexposure to women-in schools as well as fatherless homes. A firm be liever in military...
...immortalize are mostly forgotten, but his views of the waterfront retain their honesty and vigor. For his backdrops, he rarely ventured farther north than Nahant or south beyond Squantum, and his finest canvases detail the disciplined confusion of the wharves in Boston's central harbor. Beyond being a realist, Salmon also had a touch of genius. He was the first painter to bring English landscape techniques to the New World; in fact, his style was much imitated by New England artists. Says Dartmouth's Wilmerding: "Anyone with an eye could see that he had the talent...