Word: viewpoints
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...Manhattan last week, included one picture each by 145 painters. Nine out of ten exhibitors, many of them formerly figurative painters, had joined the abstract expressionist ranks. Despite some brilliantly decorative items, their combined effect was as loud and dreary as a bowling alley from the pin boys' viewpoint...
...surprising thing about the author's considerable skill is that she knows very well how to write about men; most of the book is seen from a wholly masculine viewpoint. Particularly effective is a midnight episode in which timorous strikers march out to meet a force of equally fearful police. The book's best line is given to a striker who, irritated at politicking women, mimics the old gag: "As we married women unfortunately know, there are certain aspects of marriage at which a gentlewoman shudders, but, ladies, I find that it is possible to live out these...
...seem to outline shapes; they remain lines, as in handwriting or neon. "Never, never," Kricke vows, "will I use lines as a limiting element!" The eye follows Kricke's lines as if they were intertwining jets of water, now fast, now slow, and changing with each new viewpoint, or starting place. The effect on the viewer can be as exhilarating as that of negotiating a parkway cloverleaf at maximum speed, or of flashing through a night-blazing city in a darkened Pullman berth...
...ticklish consequences are analyzed by the Rev. Neil G. McCluskey, education editor of America, in a quietly reasoned new book, Catholic Viewpoint on Education (Hanover House; $3.50). In the past 60 years, Catholic parochial schools have more than quintupled their enrollment, become the nation's fastest-growing educational system. Last year they enrolled 4,900,000 students, about 14% of all U.S. schoolchildren (and as many as 60% in strongly Catholic communities). The future is clear: roughly 30% of all U.S. babies are born to Roman Catholic families. But parochial schools get no direct tax support: the First Amendment...
...HARVARD VIEWPOINT. News commentary...