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...Africanism: Africa and the Black Diaspora--Ewart Guinier, professor of Afro-American Studies; Olara Otunnu, general secretary, Uganda Freedom Union; and Robert van Lierop, editor, Review of African Political Economy; Rm. 101, Pound Bldg...
...other direction. He is widely regarded as a reincarnation of America's cultural expatriates of the 1920s. When the catalogue essay for his present show of 50 drawings and a few paintings at New York City's Marlborough Gallery compares him with Idaho-born Ezra Pound in London-"the Yankee outsider who has the energy to float a circus, and the courage to initiate its polemics"-it reflects this startling English view...
Kitaj is not Pound. But he is one of the most inventive figurative artists at work today, and his ambition-to make the whole of modernist culture, literary, political and visual, available to painting as a subject-is a large brave one. "If some of us wish to practice art for art's sake alone, so be it," he wrote in 1976. "But good pictures, great pictures, will be made to which many modest lives can respond. When I'm told that good art has never been like that, I doubt it, and in any case it seems...
...porters and sherpas who lead and carry for the two man expedition lug 70 pound loads of lentils and rice and books up snow-choked passes, wearing wool rags at best, and sneakers. Yet, they rarely express their pain or discomfort, though they often stall and procrastinate. They are living proof that Buddhism, at least for Buddhists--which the porters are--works. And since Matthiessen enters their world, it can work for him, too--up to a point...
Having Children in Law School--Stephen Young, assistant dean, HLS, Rm. 335, Roscoe Pound Bldg...