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Smithsonian Institution's auspices, the U.S. pavilion displayed ten artists in the American "figurative" tradition. The dreamlike canvases of Edwin Dickinson commanded respect. The satiric Chicago of Red Grooms was a hit, and the sallow, sexy, epoxy-resin girls of Frank Gallo drew same fascinated attention. But otherwise the reaction was: "The U.S. has so many marvelous painters and sculptors. Why did they send us this...
...stage with the yellow smoke and the red and blue spot lights, they look grown-up, five men and a woman. Grace has long brown hair which is not straight but curled at the bottom. Not sallow-faced, fire-eyed, Haight-Ashbury, hippy girl. But almost pinkcheeked Wellesley. Long eye-lashed and colgate-smiled...
...kick out of the way his plastic sanitary straw stands straight up in his shake. And he likes to observe the teen-bopper subculture in action. At night, Hazen's absorbs the Bartley crowd. During the weekdays, it becomes a Cambridge streetcorner moved indoors, a refuge for the lustful, sallow, acne-splattered teen set. Precocous little girls with rampaging breasts bump and grind to the Seeds and the Stones. Cheeseburger boys in thick maroon coats and plaid pants leer through clouds of smoke. Everyone is doing all right...
...Would it bother a boy to go out with a girl who participates in sports?" asks Collot Guerard '69. "Who wants to go out with a flabby girl or a China doll?" On the other hand, many of these female sports enthusiasts avoid wan, sallow-looking Harvard guys. "It's a disgrace," says one sophomore, "when people let themselves go to pot. They look so soggy and unhealthy...
Robert Shelton, the sallow-faced Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, seemed to have lost his tongue last October when the House Un-American Activities Committee began holding hearings on the Ku Klux Klan. In the two days that he slouched in the witness chair, he "respectably declined" to answer any questions of substance, taking the First, Fourth, Fifth and 14th Amendments 158 times. Most insistent were his refusals to produce Klan financial records, despite Chairman Edwin Willis' warning that his intransigence could bring him a citation for contempt of Congress...