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Snob. In Sherman Oaks, Calif., when Robert Eschback was arrested on suspicion of pulling a stickup at a supermarket, he said he was never mixed up in that sort of thing: "I'm strictly a burglar...
Secondly, studies are gobbling up more and more of the week's 168 hours. Amid rueful jokes about "creeping Lamontism," students are finding less and less time for extra-curricular activities of any sort, and many hesitate to devote long hours to dull meetings. Others are content to mutter scornfully, "Boys must have their little games...
Since relations with other groups are important, the HYDC has a Second Vice-President in charge of external affairs, a sort of counterpart to its First Vice-President in charge of internal organization. "Club growth beyond a certain size is almost self-destructive," remarked one officer, "because the social contact of smaller groups is lost, and the resulting bureaucracy may drive out amateurs...
While much bickering among themselves is not altogether uncharacteristic of their calling, these critics have formulated this view in a spirit of remarkable unanimity. On the basis of wide travel in Europe and other estoeric locations, they contend that the four mettropolitan areas they praise possess some sort of cultural maturity they find lamentably lacking in other thriving centres, such as Tulsa, Toronto or Topeka...
Many of the black and white prints are genre studies, impishly comic or decorative, such as the delightful Autumn. This sort of divertissment is amusing and impresses the viewer with its formal cohesion. These qualities, Occidental aspects of Munakata's art, are almost entirely missing from Visiting in Evening, the simplest, most "Japanese" print of the exhibit. With its understatement and perfect balancing, the print testifies to Munakata's complete mastery of the conventional techniques of his country...