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...spend a year managing his father's plantation in Florida, and snatches of Negro spirituals seem to echo in the dreamy sequences of his only piano concerto. Playing with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra under William Strickland, Marjorie Mitchell gives a full-blooded performance of the seldom-heard romantic work...
...state's academic map has long been dominated by such small private colleges as Antioch, Kenyon and Oberlin, rather than by the state's public universities. Except in football, huge Ohio State (37,000 full-time students) has seldom set the pace among its fellow Big Ten schools. Currently, something of the small colleges' quality and style is being achieved by State's little-known sister school, Ohio University, in the Appalachian town of Athens...
...this figure is true in general, then the Harvard players have reason to operate 20-30 per cent above the peak which they've seldom reached. B.U. is the too-oft-chanted number one, undefeated in ECAC play. Giving the Terriers their premiere Eastern loss would be the big win the Crimson needs, the one that has been missing since it slipped away December...
Lindner is a pungent social observer. His girls are garbed in the hip gear of today's pelvic underground: miniskirts, black leather vests and striped stockings. They lick ice cream cones but seldom smile. They are exotic exaggerations, vinyl Venuses in modern Threepenny Opera costumes, flagrant in their red fright wigs and monster cupid lips. His portrait of Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim has her decked out in butterfly sunglasses with bare breasts to boot...
...longer shocks, it seldom edifies. Gone is the romantic reverence that made a work of art an object of worship; now it is apt to be just a household object, a neatly executed artifact. Is that enough? "If a painting does not make a human contact, it is nothing," says Motherwell. "The audience also is responsible. Through pictures, our passions touch; therefore painting is the fulfillment of a deep human necessity, not a production of a handmade commodity. A painting, or a man, is neither a decoration nor an anecdote...