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...Detroit riots. Fortas wrote the President's message ordering federal troops into the city. It was an unfortunate speech, blatantly political and overly technical in a time that called for reassurance and sympathy. Johnson, however, was shocked that anybody would dare to criticize it. "Why," he told a visitor, "I had the best constitutional lawyer in the United States right here, and he wrote that...
...Angeles' Ron Davis maintains that his 4-in.-thick slabs of tutti-frutti-colored fiber glass, cast in glossy, translucent and sometimes opalescent layers, are meant to be "about" nothing but "what colors are and where you put them." If a visitor suggests that Davis' flat shapes seem to hang away from the wall and look very much like twelve-sided swimming pools, Davis will protest that all he meant to depict was "the illusion of a dodecahedron." What makes the dodecahedron distinctively different is that it is shown as though seen from far, far above. The effect...
...test the relationship between status and stature, Wilson introduced a stranger from Britain by a different academic rank to five groups of Sydney students. Later, after the visitor had left, he asked each group to estimate the man's height. As plain "Mr. England, a student from Cambridge," the stranger's height averaged out to be 5 ft. 9.8 in. As "Mr. England, demonstrator in psychology from Cambridge," he grew to 5 ft. 10.39 in. Up in rank to "Mr. England, lecturer in psychology from Cambridge," he reached 5 ft. 10.86 in. As the imposing "Dr. England, senior...
Wilson's experiment suggests that extra inches are available to anyone who achieves increasing degrees of success, on campus or off. But apparently the success must be of considerable dimension. For even when he was Professor England, the visitor's estimated height still fell more than half an inch short of his actual height...
...Atlantic, it seemed weighty and formidable, one of those worthy projects the reader sets aside for a time when his mind and calendar are clear. But in hard cover, the text seems brief and often irritatingly superficial. Wakefield's viewpoint wavers. At times he is the visitor to a small planet-aloof, amused, rational, watching the antics of the savages. A few pages later, stumbling into earnestness, he takes the tone of a housewife who majored in political science writing a letter to the editor of the New York Times...