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...Twentieth century art has always liked the random. Chance meetings of images, the weird threat an unfocused eye hooks from the normal texture of life: these have fueled the reverie and invention of innumerable artists. From De Chirico's piazzas to Steven Spielberg's suburbs, our culture is intermittently fascinated by the noonday goblin-the sense that something is askew within the well lit, the ordinary, and that the closer you peer the odder it gets. Jennifer Bartlett, whose recent paintings are currently on view at the Paula Cooper Gallery in Manhattan, is a connoisseur of this kind...
...articulate educators. Indeed, during the past year an unprecedented public attention has concentrated upon issues of schooling and the need for improvement of schooling. This widespread concern has been manifest in the reports of various commissions, including the National Commission on Excellence in Education, the Task Force of the Twentieth Century Fund on the Federal Role in Education, and the report of the Education Commission of the States...
...policies in education. Harold Howe II has served with North Carolina Governor James Hunt's educational task force and with David Hamburg's Carnegie Corporation working group on educational policy. Francis Keppel continues his efforts nationally on behalf of student aid policy. I have been a member of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Federal Education Policy, and of the National Science Board Commission on Pre-Collegiate Mathematics, Science and Technology Education...
Indeed, a glance at out Twentieth Anniversary report reveals the respected careers since followed by the principal perpetrators of our class: a brilliant medical researcher, not surprisingly several professors of English--and as for the most creative and irreverent participant, he has served with great distinction on the Harvard faculty. I shall refrain from according this college roommate direct and deserving recognition, lest his tenure be in jeopardy by Cromwellian forces in University...
...Grand Central, Manhattan, Sydney Zollicoffer Mitchell dismounted from the Twentieth Century with a bad cold, went quickly to his office in the 2 Rector St. building. He telephoned a large Stock Exchange house, said he thought there would be trouble but "just call on me for anything you want." A few hours later stock of his gigantic Electric Bond & Share which had recently reached a high of 189 sold for 91. A few days later, it sold...