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Michael L. Waldman '82, last year's undergraduate ACSR representative, yesterday cited two areas of conflict between the ACSR and Corporation members that may "hold over" from last year...
...issue of Harvard's sale of $50 million worth of Citibank notes and securities approximately one year ago--in compliance with the Corporation's policy pledging divestiture of holdings in any banks extending loans to the South African government--"has not died down yet," Waldman said...
...Corporation's abstention on a measure at Dow Chemical Company that would have ended the firm's continued production of ingredients of the disputed "agent orange" also "caused strain" between ACSR and Corporation members because the ACSR approved the measure unanimously, Waldman said. However, he added that the issue might not come up again with the almost entirelty new cast of characters on the committee
Organized by Art Historian Diane Waldman, "Arshile Gorky, 1904-1948: A Retrospective" contains some 250 paintings and drawings, and will no doubt be the definitive view of its subject for years to come...
Such paintings are in the minority, despite the catalogue's efforts m to present everything Gorky touched as though it were a major statement. Curator Waldman's laudable aim has been to present Gorky's career as a continuous unfolding rather than a plagiarizing apprenticeship followed by a sudden "second birth" into originality. One is grateful to see the painter whole, but one wearies of sentences like, "The drawings are superb, yet the paintings that followed ... are even more extraordinary." These canonizations of the Self-Martyred Master (an Armenian-American Van Gogh, in effect) have an anesthetic...