Word: rosenberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students spent the day visiting the offices of their state legislators, "power-lobbying" for an amendment filed by Rep. Stanley C. Rosenberg (D-Amherst). The amendment would restore $15.7 million in funds for higher education to what has been described as a "bare-bones" $12.3 billion House budget...
Although many of the student protesters said they were unable to meet with their representatives, they said they were optimistic about passage of the Rosenberg amendment...
...Although it's not as good as the Dukakisbudget, they have to pass the Rosenberg amendment.It means no frills, but at least we'll be able toget by," he said...
...worry about the encroachment of commercialism on the classroom. "Do we want our young people to get the idea from school that buying fast food is as important as learning when Columbus discovered America?" asks Patricia Albjerg Graham, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Adds Bella Rosenberg, an official at the American Federation of Teachers: "By showing commercials, schools are implicitly endorsing the product." Others charge that principals are selling their students' souls for a pile of high- tech hardware. Says Peggy Charren, who heads Action for Children's Television: "They see stars in their eyes...
...Warhol's most authoritative creation: his fame -- the meticulous construction of a persona vivid in its coy blandness, pervasive and teasing in its appeal to the media, and deathlessly inorganic. Warhol looked like the last dandy, right from the start of his public career. As the late critic Harold Rosenberg put it, he was "the figure of the artist as nobody, though a nobody with a resounding signature." This subverted the romantic stereotype of the artist -- hot, involved, grappling with fate and transcendence -- that American popular culture, and hence most American collectors, had boiled down from Van Gogh and Pollock...