Word: rubins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pompous, as many conductors are," Sally Rubin '83, who performed a flute solo in the concert, said yesterday. She added that he was very demanding and had high standards, but that he was also patient with the non-professional musicians...
Years later, Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock were to seize on this evocative space, with its foreground frieze of totemic shapes, and develop their art upon it. Looking back in 1968, William Rubin of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art said that Miró "is the major European progenitor of abstract expressionism." Miró would never have thought of himself as a progenitor. But the idea of an undefined background space haunted him. Over the years he spread across it an increasingly personalized iconography of symbols, of figures and faces and shapes. Miró's images run back...
This largely buried argument is all that connects the book's welter of anecdotes. A Chicago teen-ager named Harold Rubin is limned practicing self-abuse over photographs of nude women. He is joined in the narrative by the newly married Hugh Hefner, who wanders the streets and gazes at apartment windows where women might appear. Hefner makes room later for John Bullaro, a married Los Angeles insurance executive who bicycles to Venice Beach on Sundays to ogle sunbathers...
...Hayden, E.D. Nixon, Allen Ginsberg, Allard Lowenstein, John Lewis, Stokely Carmichael, Jerry Rubin, Clark Kerr, James Mellon, Alan Canfora, Paul Williams, Joe Rauh, Bayard Rustin, James Famer. There were different heroes for different people. And though Viorst claims not to have written another history of the '60s, in a superior and unconventional way he has. The history is grounded in the civil rights movement, in Brown vs. the Board of Education, in E.D. Nixon and his Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. It is grounded in the "new values" of Jack Kerouac's prose--an inspiration for Tom Hayden...
...However, Rubin said, the most significant impact of the additions lay elsewhere. "It has produced a real uplifting of station morale," he said...