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...polyglot prisoners, Americans and others, civilians and servicemen. Though he was held in solitary much of the time. Guy issued orders by tapping in code on his cell walls. Men who, under torture or duress, had been cooperating with the enemy by making antiwar statements were told to taper off and eventually to desist completely...
Nauman, a 32-year-old body-artist, video-taper and conceptualist who works in California, is the present Wunderkind of the official avantgarde. His show, booked on the circuit to Bern, Dusseldorf, Milan, Houston and San Francisco, was jointly organized by the Los Angeles County Museum and the Whitney. Its imprimaturs are heavy. There are two long and ingenious catalogue essays by Curators Jane Livingstone and Marcia Tucker, written, alas, in the impacted duckspeak of art magazines (sample: "There is a singular combining of the purely somatic and the archly conceptualized and verbal in his aesthetic cognitions"). Nauman...
...motion proposed by Herbert D. Bloch, professor of Greek and Latin, recommends that more professors taper off their Harvard committments rather than abruptly retiring at age 66, the normal retirement age, or at age 70, the retirement age when an extension has been granted...
Wall Street is probably overdoing its pessimism. Interest rates are not likely to rise high enough to produce a serious credit squeeze, as they did in 1966 and 1969. Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME's Board of Economists, predicts that short-term rates will taper off in the autumn after peaking at about 7% for Treasury bills. The Federal Reserve expanded the money supply by a healthy but temperate 7.4% from the fourth quarter of 1971 to the same period last year. Burns appears willing to moderate that growth rate only slightly this year. In December, the money...
...vestments used in Christian ritual has changed. Chief reason is the democratization of the Catholic Church. Vestments once had a hierarchic purpose: the presence of the priest at a raised altar, draped in a chasuble thick with gold and silver embroidery, stiff and heavy as oxhide, glittering in the taper light, symbolized the spiritual distance between God's minister and his people. Costume is a basic way of preserving differences. Moreover, since the priest stood between the faithful and the altar, mostly with his back to the congregation, his full height was in view; this gave traditional vestment makers...