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Mondrian has never been fully accepted by museum-goers, who often fail to apprecitate the subtlety of his manipulations of color and form. His home in the canon of modern art has also never been secure—Mondrian all to often is accused of being a mere designer...
...students in science classes, however, the image evoked is rather different. Not only is section more often than not an autocratic session of deciphering and demystifying course materials, but section leaders are frequently mere undergraduates who took the course the previous fall...
...Rudenstine administration has elicited widespread condemnation for the arrogance and aloofness with which it has approached the subject of student/ administrative dialogue, and rightfully so. During the course of his tenure, Rudenstine has made a habit of holding office hours only once a month for a mere 60 minutes, and even with this limited time commitment, that hour is often cancelled. Meetings with students groups happen rarely, and when they do it is usually because organizations like the PSLM have solicited Rudenstine’s time, not vice versa...
Even back when he was a kid at Clover Avenue Elementary School in West L.A., Nakamura knew the die-cast robots were more than mere toys. One of only a few Asian kids at his school, he morphed from shy geek to totally tubular dude when he showed up to show-and-tell with his techno-toys. "The other kids were playing with their little G.I. Joes," he recalls. "And then I appear with a robot that could shoot missiles or transform into something else. It blew them away...
...says in his office as the city council dickers over his recommendation to find somewhere other than city property to plant Forrest. Perkins was offended that the statue was raised at all in a town where he grew up under Jim Crow, knowing he could get locked up for mere eye contact with a white woman. And he was offended that instead of beginning his term by getting a jump on job development and education reform, he was dragged into a 150-year-old conflict about race...