For an artist of brute simplicities, Serra is a deeply cultivated student of tradition.
In total, 60.5 % of the 271 students cultivated cariogenic bacteria successfully.
It represents the realisation of a decades-long fixation with the thrilling hyper-density of "Manhattanism", first cultivated in his student manifesto, Delirious New York.
And in Queens, students and teachers cultivated flowers that attract butterflies and pollinators.
It was hard to explain to the students that to a cultivated homosexual writer like White, son of a great pastoral family, Sydney and Melbourne in the early 1960s were the capitals of an inferiority-stricken culture which considered that literature, unlike Test centuries and fine wool, derived from other, northern climes and need not pre-occupy Australians either as creators or consumers.
He spoke in a cultivated Tidewater accent, looked at my student portfolio, and said to his wife, who appeared for a moment, "Mr. Brass is a follower of the German Expressionists".
All have attracted extensive collections and operated under the general mandate, Ms. Rorschach writes, "to give students an opportunity to develop into more cultivated, well-rounded and well-educated adults through contact with original works of art".
Perhaps because they have chosen to be there, they don't have the look of sullen resentment and cultivated boredom that glazes the faces of the high school students glimpsed now and again.
The disparity between expectations and reality at the NACAC fair is perhaps a symptom of the increased pressure students are feeling to apply to an upper echelon of schools defined by microscopic acceptance rates and a cultivated air of exclusivity.
