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...time, a White House aide was predicting an altered posture that could lead to conciliation with the Democratically controlled Congress: more Democrats in the Administration, an end to harsh personal political attacks, and a push for domestic-reform legislation. One White House visitor, the National Urban League's Whitney Young, emerged from more than an hour's talk with Nixon to announce that the President appeared ready to make a "new beginning" on race problems...
...general, U.S. museums do not just reflect art history. They program and write it through their selections, their "theme shows" and their imprimatur. But Manhattan's Whitney Museum, with dedication if not full impartiality, has clung to the principle of a survey-not declaring where it thinks artists are supposed to go but where they are actually going. In the present show, devoted this year to sculpture, there are 99 artists showing one work apiece, and it is simply intended to provide a survey of American sculpture as it now stands...
Wood as Grass. Certain younger sculptors at the Whitney eschew the high finish such works imply: their materials are plain, crudely put together and ostentatiously frugal. John Duff's Tie Piece, with its floppy swag of old neckties sewn together and swaying on a curved wooden slat, is a very promising exploration of the possibilities that lie dormant in ignored objects. It is rare to see such a fastidious imagination expressing itself through such deliberately mingy means...
...extremse tell the story. In the case of James M. Whitney, the defense fought a long, hard, vocal and impassioned case. It took two days to be resolvesd. This was partially because it was a double trial with Sobel as ?? spectators in?? in twenty minutes. He ?? suspended sentence, and a year...
...feeling was that if Pennington had not pleaded guilty, and if he had put a defense case like Whitney, he would have received the maximum sentence...