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...same token, the classic-romantic pigeonholes have conspired to make us think of neoclassical art as sensually diluted. A sharp contour supposedly driveth out lust. Of course it does not, and the sensuality of a Delacroix nude seems quite uncomplicated beside the grandiose perversity of Ingres's Jupiter and Thetis. That monument of ivory and fulgid blue, with the nymph's body twining in supplication up the huge patriarchal block of a torso, achieves a sexual pitch within its insistent abstraction that not even Matisse could rival...
...becoming more democratic or representative. A few still control admissions and thus the type of person becomes a doctor. Feminists have made gains with increasing admissions or women from 19 per cent to 33 per cent over the past four years. Third world peoples have made gains from only token admissions in 1968 to 20 per cent this past year. Yet these changes in female and minority admissions are not changing the class divisions in medicine. Harvard Med has 71 per cent from the upper middle class last year. An analysis by Dr. Navarro (New England Journal of Medicine...
...last few years, the library has given me the "token" privilege as a member of "the public" to look at books while on the premises. This privilege, I was recently informed, is a "parasitic" one, in view of the high fees paid by students, professors and researchers for similar privileges; and from now on special notes must be given as proof that the books we seek cannot be found elsewhere. We members of "the public" must sign a special sheet to ensure that we don't abuse the "privilege...
Special Relationship. Along the way to renominating their man, Daley workers shattered the political fortunes of the token G.O.P. nominee for mayor, John Hoellen, 60, who was also running for re-election as the city's only Republican alderman. He was beaten, in part because the machine made a special point of turning out votes for his opponent, Eugene C. Schulter, 27, a real estate appraiser and protégé of the Democratic ward committeeman. Afterward, Hoellen considered dropping out of the race against Daley. Said the Republican: "If I can't be elected alderman...
...crusading fortnightly journal last month exposed the derelictions of John Ashcraft, director of the West Virginia department of mines. Ashcraft, the magazine alleged, gentled mammoth coal companies with only token fines for safety violations, while at the same tune violating the law himself by failing to meet the required minimum qualifications for a mine safety inspector. As a result, a committee of the West Virginia state senate will decide this week whether to recommend Ashcraft's impeachment. The aggressive publication that dug out these facts is hardly a national name, though among the miners of Appalachia and labor experts...