Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indian culture appears hopelessly irrelevant. To some extent, the collision of Western and Indian cultures warped the conquerors' attitudes. When the Senecas sought assurances from President Thomas Jefferson in 1802 that their rights would be protected, no attempt was made to bridge the cultural gap. They received a patronizing note from a secretary that said: "Brothers, your father, the President, will at all times be your friend and he will protect you and all his red children from bad people." Only last fall Ted Rushton of New Mexico's Gallup Independent wrote haughtily of "the inevitable clash of a superior...
...West Point graduate and onetime All-America center who made a fortune in the grocery-products business, is not surprised by Europe's response to his paintings. Neither is his wife, whose father was the late Automaker Walter Chrysler and whose brother, Walter Jr., is a collector of note. "Europeans had never had the opportunity to see this kind of art before," she explains. The Garbisches bought their first naive paintings to decorate their country house on Maryland's Eastern Shore, then fell in love with them. "I guess it's because they have such honesty...
Students could also note on their transcripts that they had chosen to see their grades in only one form, such as passfail. This last point is designed to protect students from prospective employers who may think a student on pass-fail is concealing poor grades...
FILMWAYS, the company that brought us Ice Station Zebra, has gone into the student-film business, complete with high-powered promo and the kind of program notes Ernest Borgnine might write: Genesis ? is their first contribution to what they lucidly term "an evolving art." Programs of shorts, no less student films usually make for pretty uneven viewing, and this collection is no exception: taken as a program it's astoundingly mediocre despite the money and care that has obviously been lavished on some of these productions. Further in an economy move, or perhaps in a calculated effort to prevent your...
...Note That the Buffalo's Gone is a six-minute, technically stunning lament for the genocide of the American Indian. I don't like elegiac works about Indian peoples by definition: it's too easy to forget their political situation in the present by mourning their past-something on the order of reading your own obituary notice. By running that same notice over and over again American consciences have written the Indian off. And Gershfield's work is of a piece with conventional liberal sentiment; there is the same failure to differentiate between various Indian peoples, the tired old noble...