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ENTERTAINING MR. SLOAN resembles electric shock therapy. One jolt causes momentary discomfort, but the current from a steady series of joits achieves a radical transformation. This play is not meant to delight us with raw sparks of wit and entertainment. It's more of a therapeutic treatment, which director Paul Warner has created to force a brutal awareness upon the vulnerable audience. The result leaves us dazed as we retrack our way from the play's hidden theater, which Warner dubs. "Behind the Iron Door of Adams House...
...approaches. Dr. Benjamin Kean of the Cornell Medical School, who last saw the Shah yesterday, has advised us that these diagnostic studies cannot be carried out in Mexico, and he recommends that the examination take place in the U.S. David Rockefeller has asked that we admit the Shah to Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York City for diagnosis and treatment. The State Department's medical director supports
...black cheerleader, John Hawkins of Water Valley, Miss., attracted attention before the first football game of this season when he announced he would not carry the Confederate flag on the field. His wishes were understood by both the administration and many of the students. Hawkins, as well as Steve Sloan, the fine young Ole Miss football coach, favors a modified Rebel flag with "Ole Miss" or "U.M." superimposed on the venerable Stars and Bars. This proposal is gaining wide favor. As for Dixie, the Ole Miss band, which has many black performers, has perfected a number, called From Dixie with...
...many educators can't see through it because they are not sufficiently educated to deal with such random complexity." To many experts, the computer seems a symbol of both the problem and its solution. "What the computer has done," according to Stephen White of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation...
Another commanding canvas, painted when Soyer turned 80, is the latest in a long series of portraits Soyer has done of other artists, including Arshile Gorky, Milton Avery, John Sloan and many obscure representational painters. This time Soyer's subject is Mervin Jules, now 70, who is viewed, starkly, in an empty room, as a realist icon of aging...