Word: sidney
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Realist painting is now such an accepted fact of American art that one almost forgets how many of its best practitioners were once abstract painters, converted in midcareer. Philip Pearlstein, Sidney Tillim, Alfred Leslie, William Bailey: they all came, in one way or another, out of abstract expressionism, making the change not from opportunism-15 or 20 years ago, practically no collectors or museums were exempt from the tyranny of abstract art-but out of a sense of lost engagement with the physical world and a hunger to recomplicate the game. Yet the past leaves its genetic code...
...know, no one has ever come to me to ask for a grade change on the basis of unfair treatment," Sidney Verba, associate dean of the Faculty, said this week...
Nonsense, counters Sidney Glugover, who counsels elderly shoplifters in Florida's Broward County: "Feinberg and the other social scientists like to invent poetic theories about alienated subcultures. Economics is at the root of the crime. If you want a theory for what they're doing, you can call it 'dollar stretch...
...Harvard Yard stride of many other administrators is more easily recognizable. And some of his Government Department colleagues produce more New York Times op-ed articles. But Sidney Verba '53 is a College official whose increasing influence on undergraduate life at Harvard is rivaled...
With student representatives to the Committee on Undergraduate Education coming from the new 90-member Undergraduate Council this year, Verba will probably become more widely known among students. An increase in his popularity would seem automatic. But as pressure builds for an extended stay in University Hall, Sidney Verba will undoubtedly be yearning for a less-celebrated study in a quiet library corner--hoping he can make it until noon.CrimsonWilliam F. Hammond...