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Prosecutor: Didn't you know that it was an unfit word to use in front of children...
...Institute, even though it withheld 25 prints as "unfit for public exhibition," has received phone calls complaining, in effect, that Picasso is a dirty old man and demanding that the exhibit be removed. But what matters about "347 Gravures" is that the old master proves he can still invest a female nude with classic grace by means of a single magical line. He doesn't do it every time-but then he never...
...emergency fund-raising campaign that eventually allowed him to double faculty salaries. Full professors now earn up to $14,000, which is in line with faculty salaries at most private white colleges. Following his conviction that Negro applicants who score low on white-oriented aptitude tests are not necessarily unfit for college, he has relaxed entrance requirements, abandoned rigid grading and allowed students to proceed at their own pace, graduating in anywhere from three to six years. When critics suggest that he is indulging in "bargain basement" education, Cheek retorts: "We had not a thing in the world to lose...
...emerge as just one more post-Freudian snigger at the sexual vagaries of yesteryear. In a sense, such treatment would be warranted. Ruskin did, after all, get through six years of marriage without bedding his wife. He later asserted that he had come to feel that Effie was unfit to be a mother...
McCoy called Ocean Hill-Brownsville a corrupt district. "Many of the teachers we removed were unfit. We didn't want them because they didn't think our kids were capable of learning," he said...