Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...formal banquet in honor of the Wyeths, topped by a reception at which the 200-odd guests will be entertained by Pianist Rudolf Serkin in the white and gold splendors of the East Room, where 22 of Wyeth's paintings will be on display. In the Nixonian view, artists in the past have been invited to the White House, as it were, to sing for their supper at a party for someone else. Under the new dispensation, the supper will be given to honor the artist himself. Nixon gave Duke Ellington a 70th birthday party last spring, more recently...
...take so literal a view is to miss one overwhelming characteristic of Malcolm X's thought, his integration of history, religion and mythology, and his profound and necessary sense of history's possibilities as a man-created aid to faith and policy. Browbeaten by the delusions of science and scholarship, white society has lately and perhaps foolishly begun to discard such conceptions. But it takes shortness of memory or lack of imagination or both not to see that W. D. Fard's cyclical vision is hardly more farfetched than the mythology of Marxism, which also explains past...
...militancy was his lynx-eyed criticism of the hand-wringing but hapless efforts made by black and white liberals to wrest from the machinery of American democracy anything more than promises and paper shuffling. Extremist in many ways, Malcolm X was most effectively extreme in sheer impatience. In his view, as one of his "blue-eyed" fellow citizens once remarked in another connection, "Extremism in the cause of justice is no vice...
Alexander's wide-eyed but not very sensitive view provides a short crarri course on the ways men have discovered to dehumanize themselves. For a start, Maclnnes and young Alexander rub the reader's nose in the flog-grog-and-vomit life of the British seaman...
...article by David Hollander in the CRIMSON's February 17 issue discusses the view that no change may be needed in the structure of the Harvard Presidency provided the new President is "acceptable in general." Acceptability in these terms is defined in terms of President Kingman Brewster. Jr., of Yale, or someone like him. If no such new President can be found for Harvard, the argument goes, then-and only then-should the structure of the Harvard Presidency be altered by the creation of a Provost in charge of academic affairs...