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...engaged in the Individualized Language Arts program, funded by the Government. I.L.A. students meet two or three times a week, write short paragraphs on the same assigned topic, read them aloud, discuss possible improvements and then revise, often at greater length. The Bay Area Writing Project has spread from Berkeley, Calif., to 74 communities around the country. Its aim is to teach writing teachers how to teach writing. All sorts of methods are used, including the rewriting for clarity of long sentences by William Faulkner...
...learn in college, he studied primal scream for a year, then took classes in New for a year, then took classes in New York with a healer. He almost made a pilgrimage to India, but instead trekked across North America visiting healing centers in places like Vancouver, Canada, and Berkeley, Calif. He worked for a while in the psychedelic ward of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, helping people deal with bad trips and good. Back in Boston, he studied macrobiotics and the "Fourth Way of Healing"--a method derived from the esoteric teachings of the mystic Gurdjieff--as well...
...afterbirth. For the straitlaced Sioux, these references are a bit much. "The Lakota, next to the Cheyenne, were one of the most sexually restrained native societies that have been documented," says Sioux Anthropologist Bea Medicine. Adds JoAllyn Archambault, a Lakota Sioux studying for her Ph.D. in anthropology at Berkeley: "No one's objecting to what did happen-we tortured, we ate dogs. What we're objecting to is what didn't happen...
Delegates at Cleveland represented a wide cross-section of backgrounds and motives for being there, including left-leaning democrats, new-left radicals from the 1960's (Mario Savio, founder of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley--the group which kicked off student protests in the '60's--was there, with graying hair and beard), radical teminists, American Indians, gays, and Gray Panthers...
HOWEVER outrageous such an exhibit may strike some, this exhibit of perfect is not Byars' only conceptual art work. He created "The Perfect Kiss," at Berkeley's University Art Museum, a show in which Byars "mounted a low, white platform in one corner, composed himself for a moment, then pursed his lips." On the first of May Byars will depart for Italy to design a 100-foot pink flag for the Venice Biennial Celebration. Byars says that he also runs the "World Question Center," and he adds that he is the only one left in it. The skeptic will naturally...