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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...development of chemical and biological weapons and the enlargement of the nuclear stockpile. Instead, they suggest that scientific research should be turned increasingly toward solving the nation's environmental and social problems. As the first step toward bringing about such a change in U.S. scientific policy, they call upon scientists "to unite for concerted action...
...Easel. In recent years, particularly, a growing number of artists have chosen this device as a way of making outspoken comments about the nature of their calling. The majority of these works are little more than postgraduate examples of those art school exercises in which students are called upon to copy older paintings or even to try to improve on them. A minority illuminate their topic unforgettably. By penciling a Dali-like goatee and mustache onto a reproduction of the Mono Lisa, Marcel Duchamp made it difficult for anyone looking at the lady thereafter to overlook either the pompous reverence...
...newest crop of painters who prey upon their fellows promises to prove more unsettling than any of its predecessors. For one thing, the school is proliferating rapidly. One Manhattan showroom is currently showing Richard Pettibone's miniature copies of Andy Warhol's soup cans, while another opened last week with Howard Kanovitz's paintings of his easel, his art-world friends and the backs of his canvases. A third gallery is showing Malcolm Morley's version of Vermeer's Portrait of the Artist in His Studio-a much-admired painting that has also served...
...York City commercial bank may earn as little as $25,000 a year, though he can hope to become a major bank president at $250,000 or so. Partners at Lehman Brothers and other investment banking houses can earn $500,000 or more a year. Their incomes depend upon how much capital they contribute to the firm and the size of the mergers, underwritings and other deals that they bring in. Unlike commercial bankers, however, the investment bankers have partnership arrangements that make them personally liable for losses...
Dancing is not frowned upon at the Ark as it is at the Tea Party and most people do take to the floor at some tome or other, though one is slightly dwarfted by the cavernous height of the ceiling...