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...Washington, D.C. last weekend, students by the thousands shuffled in picket lines before the White House on behalf of disarmament with controls, got an early assist from the President himself, who ordered a five-gallon coffee urn sent out. A delegation invited inside found presidential aides lined up to listen. Emerging pleased as punch, one "Turn Toward Peace" picketeer reported, "They said we were a nice balance to the 'cold warriors.' " In the halls of Congress, the disarmament group got shorter shrift from California's Chet Holifield, chairman of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. "Somebody...
Gussow makes a distinction between an object and a subject as a theme for a painting. "An object," he says, "is something separate, like a Chinese urn, to be held up, inspected, admired, but nothing more. A subject implies something subservient, something that the artist can control but is also responsible for." Gussow's special responsibility is to show his favorite subject, nature, in action. He succeeds admirably. Though his design stays firm, his spontaneous brush strokes make his canvases seem fluid. The effect is just what Gussow is after: "The idea of something happening, the illusion of change...
During the past year, a number of alternative proposals have been raised. Some members of the department have suggested hat juniors be required to urn in their final selection of thesis topic before they leave in the spring. They could then "think about" their topic over the summer, and be ready to begin work immediately when hey returned in September. The due date could then be pushed back about a month, reliving to some extent the spring "congestion...
Huntress Hippolyta looks like a sort of Katharine Hepburn on a Grecian urn. Moreover, the puppets move with amazing fluidity and naturalness-every second of screen time represents 24 changes of position; the complete film, running 74 minutes, required exactly 106,560 moves -through scenes designed with antic charm and persistent style. The spectator soon accepts the intricate artifice and sinks happily into a swoon of poesy and forms, well met by moonlight...
Electro (by Sophocles) has one of those scenes of naked emotional intensity that have been missing on the stage since Olivier gave his howl of self-recognition as Oedipus. It comes when Electra, played by Aspassia Papathanassiou, sees the urn that supposedly contains the ashes of her brother Orestes. She drops where she stands with a wild animal cry; she clutches at the urn, cradles and rocks it in entwining arms, spasmodically tries to breathe it back to life with words of love, smothers it with the salty, sightless kisses of tears, the strangulated sobs of a soul bereft...