Dear Editor
Dear Editor Spring Book Issue May I, as one who has read and enjoyed The Ntw Leader for well over three decades, say first that I continue to read your journal with profit and pleasure. But after...
...Arlington, Tex...
...Seeing a brand-new English lecturer of 23 in the audience look surprised...
...But what these young voters will do in the polling booth, or whether they will ultimately exercise their new privilege, remains open to question...
...But after completing your May 17 number, I must note that Ger-maine Greer is not...
...At one predominantly black high school in Compten, the ratio was reported to be about 100-1 in favor of the Democratic party...
...I feel that even Mondrian considered it necessaiy to retain at least some suggestion of figurative structure patterns, and I do not agree with Mellow that Mondrian pushed the "abstract tendencies of Cubism to their logical end...
...London T. R. FYVEL Mellow My thanks to THE NEW LEADER and James R. Mellow for continued thoughtful and provocative articles, such as "A Failure of Nerve" (NL, May 3...
...Kinetics," and many varieties of interests which created a world full of new, exciting, unusual experience for the viewer...
...Furthermore, by a ratio of over 3-1, the students are registering as Democrats, even in areas where most of their parents are Republicans...
...I whispered to him...
...As Mellow so aptly put it, they indeed "had a failure of nerve...
...as A"ne Richardson Roiphe writes ("Of Mothers and Sisters*'), an Englishwoman...
...which eventually led to the Cubist collage...
...Whatever its defects, his book on Orwell is essentially Cambridge—like Jonathan Miller's on Mc-Luhan...
...Good because, to paraphrase Auden, we are in May 1971 already 100 million heartbeats away from the age of Columbia...
...I am an ardent admirer of Picasso, yet I have grown disappointed with his apparent position toward abstraction...
...T particularly liked Robert Gorham Davis' review of the four critics ("The Problematic State of Literature...
...I myself recall Quentin Anderson telling an English literary conference in 1968 that all we had been discussing, all the literary debate, was already destroyed, over, no longer existing in the U. S., and within 10 years we would face the same vacuum...
...I find, in his works, a strong conservative element of traditional bias against total absence of recognizable figurative images...
...Soured Enthusiast"), an Oxford Don but a teacher at Cambridge...
...It began breaking itself down (logically) into "Orphism...
...Geometries...
...For this reason, I am disappointed that Picasso and Braque resorted to careful, restrictive tactics in order to contain Cubism...
...For example, it seems to me that Duchamp's "Rotary Glass Plate" is conceivably a logical end (or extension) of efforts exemplified by his "Nude Descending a Staircase...
...But the show, excluding Vietnam, with a new play each year, remains fascinating, and I remain indebted to The New Leader for keeping me abreast...
...She is as Australian as Margaret Court, and plays the same big-hearted, attacking, all-court game...
...The comparison between Germany and Austria which Richard J. Margolis attributes to John Gunther ("Looking for America") is far, far older than Gunther and, I think, something on the lines of: "The situation in Berlin is serious but not hopeless, in Vienna it is always hopeless but not serious...
...TOM MOTLEY Youth Vote Support appears to be mounting for Carl Gershman's argument that the 18-21-year-old vote will have a political impact ("Youth Power at the Polls," NL, April 19...
...I suspect a lot of young people won't participate...
...part of the Cambridge East wind...
...A voter registration drive conducted by the Alliance for Labor Action among high school students in California has been enrolling about 90 per cent of the eligible students...
...Los Angeles ROBERT SMITH...
...I'd only take longer odds," whispered the young lecturer, and as Professor Anderson continued with his pessimistic survey I thought to myself: "Ah, good, an entirely new generation...
...Ten to one against this prophecy...
...The students seem to be highly independent rather than deeply committed to any one party or candidate...
...1968...
...I fully regard Cubism's arrival as a vital catalyst to the growth of significant art in America, hut I fear that Picasso and Braque, in attempting to maintain a pure Cubism, remained stationary, in a sense, and failed to deal with a crucial path of development...
...I consider this far more influential than the work of Picasso and Braque...
...My own impression is that Carl Wagner, head of the drive, was right in saying, "If the choice in '72 is between traditional candidates taking traditional positions...
...How swift, indeed, seen from across the sea, has been the American passing show of 1971 (Women's Lib), 1970 (Black Panthers), 1969 (San Francisco flower children), 1968 (the student rebellions), 1967 (the long hot summer of ghetto fires), 1966—I forget, what was that year's production...
...For me, Delaunay represents a major turning point not only in painting but in a whole outlook, attitude and approach to expression through visual representation...
...Having found this, I now must admit that I personally do not feel Picasso or Braque (in Cubism) ever approached Duchamp's intuitive and innovative use of figurative images...
...as Raymond Rosenthal says ("Fossilized Socialist...
...And Raymond Williams is not...
...In other words, t do not feel that Cubism held a logical end...
Vol. 54 • June 1971 • No. 13
