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...temperature soars, the New York City art world winds down. Early summer is the time for group shows, mixed hangings, tail ends of the year. Yet now and again, it contains some interesting items; even a few revelations. Two such shows, having nothing but dates in common, can be picked from Manhattan's dwindling bill of fare. One is a downtown exhibition of works on paper by the Kansas-born artist Alan Shields, 39; the other, at the Marlborough Gallery on 57th Street, is the promising second New York show of a painter from the Southwest, John Alexander...
...saber-toothed tiger is long gone, but the modern jungle is no less perilous. The sense of panic over a deadline, a tight plane connection, a reckless driver on one's tail are the new beasts that can set the heart racing, the teeth on edge, the sweat streaming. These responses may have served our ancestors well; that extra burst of adrenaline got their muscles primed, their attention focused and their nerves ready for a sudden "fight or flight." But try doing either one in today's traffic jams or boardrooms. "The fight-or-flight emergency response...
Even sharp-eyed amateurs with small telescopes or binoculars could make out the comet's bright central mass, or nucleus, and its long gaseous tail. Astronomers concluded that I-A-A was probably not a "virginal" comet, meaning one that has never before swept around the sun. Its lack of brilliance suggested that the sun had boiled off some of its icy material on earlier journeys, hundreds or even thousands of years...
Reich begins the book with a detailed description of the evolution of business management in the U.S. His general point is that while America's industrial development has been spectacular in the last hundred years at the tail end of the first American frontier, we better change our act because we have come to another one. U.S. development, he argues, was spearheaded by adventurous entrepreneurs who put all their eggs in high-volume, standardized production with little help from the government and little concern for workers. These plants, headed by professional managers, contributed to a prosperity "unparalleled in history...
With 11-4-1 Navy and 8-4 Dartmouth close on its tail, Harvard--now 12-3-1 in league play--is anything but locked into the number one spot. The Crimson must sweep its final doubleheader Saturday at Dartmouth to stay ahead of Navy, which will make up its rained-out twinbill with Cornell this Sunday at a neutral site...