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...university that only lets you poster bulletin boards and kiosks and doesn't supply paint for students surrounded by peeling walls, how such an unattractive display of pseudo-intellectual neo-garbage be allowed to destroy one of the few highlights of life in the Quad, the Quadrangle itself...
Both Steiner and Heimert scoffed at the idea ofcontacting the African National Congress, a exiledrebel organization. Neo Mnumza, chiefrepresentative of the ANC at the United Nations,released a statement opposing the internshipprogram which was quoted in the SASC report...
...exorcised by public opposition to anything labeled elitist. (Fortunately, few Harvard-Radcliffe students actually feel the guilt they think they should; most are too healthy and sensible for that; but they seem unable to work out a satisfying rationale for enjoying themselves; and thus are easy prey for Neo-Puritans...
...sometimes arch toymaker's instinct that produced the streamlined gadgetry of late art deco, the Day-Glo plastics of Pop, the high-tech doodads and joke furniture of today. The other is a reformist urge. When not fashioning playthings, designers turn grave, producing furniture and other objects that are neo- Puritan, high-minded. The severe geometries of Frank Lloyd Wright's turn- of- the-century interiors and Steven Holl's beautiful side chair (1984), for example, can have an almost oppressive sobriety. As playfulness alternates with the more austere, missionary vision, the American cultural personality seems like a preacher...
...playing with the food processor, the CD player and the PC, who wouldn't feel he had seen the future? The playfulness of high-art designers, however, is of a more rarefied kind. Instead of making gadgets, they construct jokes. Sometimes the jokes are academic, such as Michael Graves' neo-Biedermeier chair (1981) and Robert Venturi's line of Chippendale, Queen Anne and Empire parodies (1984). Sometimes the jokes are perverse, and the subject is the material itself. Scott Burton has carved chairs from solid granite (1984) and Gehry's fish-shaped lamp (1983) is made of Formica chips...