Word: summer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is reflected in a sumptuous summer-long exhibition entitled "The Past Rediscovered: French Painting 1800-1900" at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The show provides a rare opportunity for reacquaintance and reassessment (see color). Paintings by both major and minor figures, including seven loaned by the Louvre, have been arranged in chronological sequence, thereby skillfully re-creating a vigorous esthetic dialogue reflected on canvas...
Unfortunately, things have been wrong more often than right at rock festivals across the U.S. this summer. In June, the Newport '69 Festival outside Los Angeles was disrupted repeatedly as gangs of toughs and pseudo toughs crashed the gates by the thousands, threw sticks, bottles and rocks at the police. At the Denver Pop Festival the next weekend, gate crashers lobbed firecrackers, bottles and debris at the police and the police threw tear gas. At the Newport (Rhode Island) Jazz Festival over the July 4 weekend, where rock was included for the first time, bonfires were set, chairs...
...them: poor sound and visibility; inadequate parking, housing, sanitation facilities, and a mind-boggling plethora of uneven talent, which is often the result of a booking agency's insistence that a promoter has to take three or four second-rate acts to get a good name group. This summer's disturbances, however, do not mean that there is something inherent in rock that automatically leads to rioting; too many kids have lived un-rebelliously with today's pop sound for that to be true. Instead, the festivals seem to have become an experience akin to the spring...
Prominent Commandment. Convened by Dr. August F. Coppola, a professor of comparative literature at Cal State, the symposium was designed to demonstrate his conviction that "ours is a touch-starved society." Coppola reached this conclusion after spending ten days blindfolded, on a summer study grant, touching everything out of sight. The experience opened his eyes to the sensations lying just beyond the fingertips, in a culture that has as one of its prominent commandments, "Don't touch...
...world, it is deteriorating noticeably in many areas. The problems extend as far west as California, but most are concentrated in the densely populated Eastern U.S. In Boston, New England Telephone says that it is still suffering from the effects of a four-month strike of equipment installers last summer. New York Tel also had a strike, and its woes have been compounded by some unhappy financial planning. In 1968, the company held down capital spending and maintenance in anticipation of a slowing in the U.S. economy. Business soared, however, particularly in the mid-Manhattan and Wall Street areas...