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At least Karp is doing something about the shame. The Brooklyn Museum is readying an acre for Karp's relics, to be called the Frieda Schiff Warburg Memorial Sculpture Garden. Due to be opened next year, the sanctuary will have antique lampposts lighting the paths, and wistful wanderers will...
With a wistful look at California and New York, Florida decided last year to create a board of regents to set policy for the university system. Some kind of coherent direction was direly needed. Picking sites for new campuses has mostly been settled by which Chamber of Commerce hollered loudest...
Parental Abdication. At the same time, adults who lived through a great depression, a shattering war, an anxious peace, and the whole onslaught of existentialism are less inclined than ever to proclaim what Margaret Mead calls "parental imperatives." Some of the slackening has been as silly as the diffident dad...
I was also annoyed by something I thought I read between the lines, perhaps inaccurately, in Mr. Brackman's article. Mr. Brackman and other, more radical "white liberals" seem occasionally to slip into almost wistful speculation that the American Negro may lead a "radical social upheaval" or "social revolution" which...
As Marcel Marceau has proved, a brilliant mime can reveal wistful, grief-stricken and joyous states of human feeling. But after an evening of planned misery with the Polish Mime Theater, one merely wonders if Communism can really be all that bad.