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JUDGING FROM THE FOGG'S current exhibition, the art world's preoccupation with abstract art seems to have temporarily ceased. And for those of the general public who have felt innundated, if not bored by, this ten-year bombardment of squares and stripes, the show entitled Recent Figure Sculpture at least provides an incentive to return to the museum. Realism in art has re-emerged, and in this case it is a realism both humorous and shocking. Even the person who feels he has to be entertained by art exhibitions should enjoy it. Debates will undoubtedly continue as to whether...
...tell. A high school dropout from Dallas, he joined the Navy, tried to become a pilot but was disqualified for color blindness. That made him so "disenchanted with Navy life," as he put it, that he robbed a naval-station bank of $125,000 and ended with a ten-year prison term...
...more importantly, our children into the public schools and are given no accounting of what happens to either," was the gist of many complaints. Out of 20 Ibs. of testimony, Bakalis and his associates drew up a set of common goals for Illinois schools in the 1970s, the only ten-year plan of its kind in the U.S. Bakalis promises to experiment with more plans for individualized, go-at-your-own-speed instruction, a frequently expressed demand at the hearings. In certifying teachers, he intends to play down education courses in favor of monitored teaching experience, including a compulsory...
Because flu tends to erupt at ten-year intervals, doctors have been searching for a defense against the major epidemic expected to occur toward the end of the decade. Now they appear on the verge of success. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health's Allergy and Infectious Diseases branch last week announced a new vaccine that may make it possible to control the disease effectively for the first time...
...flat nails. Pale fingers with soft black down on the knuckles." Thus Hannah, a pretty young student at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, met a geologist-to-be named Michael Gonen. This novel by the popular Israeli writer Amos Oz is Hannah's first-person account of her ten-year marriage to Michael. The sentences fall like the drip drip drip of the rain on Hannah's Jerusalem, and what the voice within her keeps repeating...