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...Emerson Hall was a little like that at one of Fidel Castro's Committees for the Defense of the Revolution in Havana. Emerson buzzed with frenetic activity, the intense conversations punctuated by the thunk, thunk, thunk of two hard-working-mimeograph machines. On the wall hung a great poster portrait of Lenin, and stairways were decorated with slogans and placards. One sign read: "A revolution without joy is hardly worth the trouble." Members of "political brigades" churned frantically up and down the stairs, hurrying to and from endless "rap sessions" with students in dining halls and junior common rooms...
...anyone who comes in with an idea is shown how to make his own and allowed to do it), a few are exceptionally magnificent and approach the best work produced by a whole country full of screaming leftists in France last Mai. There is the "on strike abstract" poster (see Strike Graphics Illustration #4), which is a print that was originally a woodcut and was adapted to silk-screen for reproduction. Its use of a circular figure makes it the most suggestive of the strike workshop's designs...
...Much of Nothing" poster (see Strike Graphics Illustration #3) is a simply great, vaguely cubist construction with the letters "Too Much of Nothing" alternately dropping in and out of a background map of Harvard Yard. The silk-screen method is a medium particularly well suited to alternating blacks and whites so the background and foreground read over each other in a reverse transparency. The technique makes the "Too Much of Nothing" poster at first hard to read, but ultimately a wonderful design...
...Strike" poster (see Strike Graphics Illustration #1) is the best effort of the simplicity form. And the "big fist in the air" poster (see Strike Graphics Illustration #2) goes best when it's demanding "Black Studies." There is something about the letters "B" and "k" that are really miltant; besides, it looks better in black than...
Finally, a man from Truc's Poster Gallery (a store) came in the other day smoking a cigar and offered to buy up some of their stuff. The workshop people told him they only make posters to put on trees so people can read them. So that's the only place they...