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Indulgent Affection. Jordaens scorned Van Dyck's elegancies. In contrast to Rubens, he looked at the roistering pleasures of a good burgher's family life without feeling any need to translate them into the realm of gods, goddesses or nymphs. He was more interested in the play of light than Rubens ever was, and his studies of faces, with that unexpected illumination that candlelight can bring, are something that Rubens never tried nor achieved...
...demonstrated neither their impotence nor their indifference, that the sit-in is indefensible--not because the target happened to be us, the professors, instead of Dow. That these points should have to be explained to one's students is normal--I have learned enough from them, especially in the realm of moral concern and idealistic commitment, to insist in return, without condescension, that they learn some essional distinctions without which they will not be responsible citizens or even effective radicals. That one should have to teach these distinctions to a philosopher-colleague is more baffling...
...strangely erudite. Introducing one of his poems, "A Baroque Wall Fountain in the Villa," he dismissed the question of "transcendance and acceptance" as "sounding too much like a critic," but at other moments talked offhandedly of Pascal ("The spirit doesn't have any business denying things in the realm of fact"), St. Augustine ("The soul is complete in every part of the body"), and Pasternak. It was almost as if the rude irreverence which characterizes books like Paul Carroll's anthology of The New American Poets, the things James Dickey says about "the distant and learnedly distasteful tone of Eliot...
...state supreme court will not hand down a ruling for at least a month, maybe two. If they rule in Baird's favor, it will be on the basis of privacy, free speech, or another of Balliro's arguments, that the statutes do not fall within the proper realm of legislation...
...Lawrence and the elder Green are deard, and have left no heirs capable of ruling the realm. Mayor Joseph Barr of Pittsburgh and Mayor James Tate of Philadelphia can barely control their own baronies, let alone work effectively on the statewide level...