Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muskie came face-to-face with a dozen newsmen, several TV cameras pointed straight at his nose and five or six Vietnam Veterans Against the War who shouted pointed questions from behind the crowd. Muskie was patient with the newsmen but answered the questions of the Vietnam vets in textbook phrases...
Given the quality and quantity of the Museum's Picasso collection, the retrospective reads like a standard textbook on the art of Picasso, a major volume on masterpiece and medium in twentieth century art. Every phase in his career--some unfortunately more than others--is represented by some artwork familiar to both MOMA habitue and reproduction monger alike. Transfixing one in either aesthetic or emotional horror, the famous "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), flanked as it is by examples of the Iberian monumentality and primitivism Picasso assimilated into the savage proto-Cubism of his brothel scene, illustrates the creative process...
Though successful as a life-size Picasso textbook, the show lacks the human dimension so important to Picasso himself. It is a passage in art history devoid of autobiographical data. No explanations, statements, or personal details relieve the impersonally exhibited mass of masterpieces. Picasso would disapprove:" It's not what an artist does that counts, but what he is. Cezanne would never have interested me a bit if he had lived and thought like Jacques-Emile Blanche, even if the apples he had painted had been ten times as beautiful. What forces our interest in Cezanne's anziety that...
...mammoth electricity plant pays one-third of the local school taxes, thus keeping the property tax rate down to $21.30. Comparing Sea Cliff with his own area, Levittown's school superintendent Robert F. Neidich says: "If we raise our tax rate 10?, we can buy one $4 textbook for every child. If they raise their rate 10?, they can buy five books...
...tower will probably be cited as a textbook example of bad urban design," says Allan Jacobs, director of the San Francisco Planning Department, who has never had any veto power over the antenna project. As he sees it, huge TV masts should be located outside cities. Most other critics would at this late date settle for a return to the original, or, indeed, any less offensive, design. The builders' response: the antenna is in the best location and has the best design to give people the best TV reception. Either way, it seems that the Golden City will soon...