Word: split
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale already has registered more victories-six-than in all of last year's nightmarish season. The Elis show a victory over southern powerhouse Jacksonville as well as a doubleheader split with Army...
...march are hoping for a turn-out of half a million, but two-hundred thousand seems nearer the mark. NPAC is basically a front organization for the Student Mobilization Committee (SMC), which has managed to retain a remarkable continuity of leadership and membership, while other anti-war organizations have split apart at the seams. One reason for SMC's organizational continuity has been the influence of the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA), which is not only the largest radical party on the left, but one of the best disciplined. Radical critics of YSA often accuse the party of being Trotskyist...
Aesthetics or Polemics? At this point a split became apparent among the black artists themselves. While the B.E.C.C. was protesting that the organization of the show was not black enough, some of the best-known black artists in the U.S. began to resent the prospect of being shut in a purely black context, as if they were anthropological specimens. They pulled out. Among them were Richard Hunt, Mel Edwards, Daniel Johnson, William Williams, Joe Overstreet and Sam Gilliam. Says Johnson, who happens to be an abstractionist: "From the outset of the show, we felt it was going to be disastrous...
...show that remains, there are distinguished works by such artists as Frank Bowling, Howardena Pindell and Alvin Loving. For these and other artists who stayed on, to be caught in the crossfire is rough. "The black community is completely split up over this," says Loving. "I'm black, I'm an artist, and I can't deal with all the circumstances of America's illness. I don't want to hide my art. The first mistake was going to a white institution and asking for something." But B.E.C.C.'s Benny Andrews disagrees...
...publishing obscenity. In San Francisco, where everything conceivable has been seen for several years, the D.A. recently got convictions against three porno film-house proprietors, one of them for showing a movie in which a woman had intercourse with a dog, a stallion and a hog. The Supreme Court split 4 to 4 in a decision on the obscenity of the film / Am Curious (Yellow), which had the effect of upholding the ban on the film in Maryland. Although legal sophisticates realized that this was due to the abstention of Justice William Douglas, some of the more censorious nevertheless took...