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Otto Dix is a German painter. He likes to growl, "I'm not so tender." And in pre-Hitler Germany he showed what he meant: cynical portraits of German prostitutes and socialites, gruesome oils and etchings of World War I. The Nazis didn't like the Dix kind of thing at all; they considered his powerful paintings deliberately calculated to spread despondency and alarm. They labeled him an "artistic degenerate," kicked him out of his art professorship at the University of Dresden, and destroyed all the Dix pictures they could lay hands on. Dix retreated to a German...
...years, Sarah Lawrence has run a nursery school. Mainly for the use of psychology students to observe the child's activities, the nursery also provides a convenient place to which Bronxville's mothers can send their off-spring. Almost 45 students tender the little tots at some time or other during the year. Weekly meetings with teachers allow the girls to apply what they learn from their work to their studies in psychology...
General Education is still at a tender age, and its chances of fulfilling all the hopes invested in it are hardly measurable just now. Nonetheless, everyone seems to have great faith in the program--its very name evokes religious fervor--and the authors of the Council G.E. Report are no exceptions. Although they have not tried to judge General Education except by its own standards, they imply that the faults plaguing it are ones of administration and teaching, and that eliminating these is all one must do to make the program a success...
...choice of three goalies, but Wednesday the team's first major injury occurred. John Ogdell, all ex-Andover player, separated his left shoulder and was put out of action for the rest of the year. Pickett said that as yet he has not chosen his starting goal tender from the two remaining men, John Eldridge and Steve Denhartog, although yesterday at the first full field scrimmage, Denhartog handled the net assignment...
...sword in hand, the others leaping with him on either side." The charge was sweeping the deck; Bush tried to spring forward to join it but his legs would not move. Soon, hands were lifting his head. "'Bush! Bush!' That was Hornblower's voice, pleading and tender. 'Bush, please, speak...