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...sending along this recommendation, the Chamber was able to get the problem of integration off its books, and move along to more pressing affairs. None of its members-believe that integration is an important question, for none can apply the concept of community responsibility to the "colored folk" in town. If Negro housing threatens the health of all of Chestertown's citizens, for example, it is still up to the Negro to improve his conditions: "You have your own grey ladies at the hospital. Why can't they do something to teach your people proper hygiene?" It is useless...
...Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts offers very little novelty in its program--only two unprecedented new courses. Yet, in its concept, it is revolutionary and may well be revolutionary in its effect. According to its coordinator of studies, Ed-hard F. Sekler, the center is intended to overcome "visual illiteracy" at Harvard, to make "visual experience, visual exploration, and visual creation there in education a relevant place with verbal experience, investigation, and creation...
...same concept of a self-contained community is displayed in Unite d'Habitation, the Marseilles apartment block completed in 1952. At the opening ceremony in October of that year Le Corbusier described the superblock as "the first manifestation of an environment suited to modern life...
...that these are words of a theologian who wants to sell the oldest cultural good, namely religion. He does not. Even if one calls the experience in the vertical dimension religious, it is not what this word usually connotes. It is not what I sometimes have called the magazine concept of religion-even the TIME concept of religion-namely, religion as one of the cultural functions of man's spirit reported, for instance, between economy and sports, considered as the job of the "religionist"-the most anti-religious word in the English language. Religion as the experience...
...organization's two major functions have posed several problems. The very concept which inspired RGA remains foreign to many students and administrators. They still tend to envision any form of student participation as a determined group of undergraduates badgering the administration. The CRIMSON editorial congratulating the new organization on the appointment of administrators to its council reflected this view: "The fact that the administration controls only three votes out of forty preserves the useful illusion of student autonomy." As Dean Mattfeld, who serves as Administrative Vice-President of RGA, pointed out, the organization's success depends on the realization that...