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...intended to define all that had been important in U.S. art since the war, "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-70," mounted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since its curator, Henry Geldzahler (now New York City's commissioner of cultural affairs), was a creature of mode and whim with no marked convictions of his own, the exclusion of Nevelson may be said to have reflected a general consensus of dealers and formalist critics...
...determinism and free will, comedy and tragedy, the past and the present. The three jugglers-Gruault, Resnais and Laborit-work in perfect sync, perhaps because their own pasts have prepared them for this challenge. Gruault's scripts have often described characters dominated by their emotions or by the whim of the historical moment. And nothing could be more natural than that Resnais, whose films have played with the real and imagined past in a medium that lives in the eternal present, should make a movie based on the work of a biologist who declares that "a living creature...
...joined the women's soccer team. playing JV for two years and revelling in the camaraderie of a "real team sport." In the winter of her sophomore year, Rogers entered an indoor track race on a whim and surprised everyone--including herself--by running her best half-mile and cruising past quite a few team regulars...
Alison Dundes '81, president of RUS, said yesterday departmental autonomy on tenure decisions makes enforcement of affirmative action procedures difficult. "We can't leave serious matters to departmental whim," she added...
...much? That is what the Republicans are wondering about the $2.6 million budgeted by the Democrats to accomplish what many consider the impossible: defeating Reagan in his home state. Says Les Francis, Carter's national field director: "We're not spending that kind of money on a whim. The state is winnable." Scoffs Dean Burch, George Bush's top aide: "I think Carter is smoking dope on California." If Reagan should lose California, it would signal a nationwide collapse. Without his home state, Reagan's candidacy is almost unthinkable: it is California or bust. A September...