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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artists themselves do their bit. Painter Ad Reinhardt, who has so "refined" his paintings that they are currently all the same size and all look absolutely black until sufficient staring reveals an invariable cross of rectangles, is wont to make such statements as: "There is no place in art for life . . . the one thing to say about art is its breathlessness, lifelessness, deathlessness, contentlessness, formlessness, spacelessness, and timelessness...
...actual firing came at the end of a relatively calm 1½-day public discussion of the budget, at which Reagan once again expressed his willingness to modify both the size of his cuts and the tuition fee. With business apparently completed, Theodore Meyer, a San Francisco lawyer and chairman of the regents,* told Kerr that the board wished to consult in private...
Baltimore's research-minded Johns Hopkins University has a reputation that far outstrips its size (1,764 undergraduates, 2,038 grad students). Its fame lured Milton Eisenhower-former head of Kansas State and Penn State and adviser to four U.S. Presidents-to its presidency in 1956. Last week Johns Hopkins landed a seasoned scholar-diplomat to succeed him: Lincoln Gordon, 53, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs...
True Community. Under Eisenhower, Johns Hopkins has again caught up with its reputation for excellence. One index is its enrollment of 850 postdoctoral students-the largest, for its size, of any U.S. university. It is also a collegiate democracy: the twelve-man Academic Council, elected by the faculty, has a free hand in setting academic policy. "There is no institution in the country where freedom is more prized," proudly declared Eisenhower. "This is a true community of scholars...
...highway hub, it is perhaps the most convenient of U.S. cities. It has fleshpots and fun spots. For expositions it has the Navy Pier, Soldier Field, the International Amphitheater, and Chicago Stadium. In 1960, Chicago outdid itself by building McCormick Place, an edifice alongside Lake Michigan that ran the size of six football fields, with 486,000 square feet of space on three levels. It soon became the site of the U.S.'s biggest trade shows. McCormick Place cost Chicago $35 million to build, and one boast was that it would be "more durable than the Colosseum...