Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...artist, who died in 1967, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, N.Y., is currently displaying a 441-work retrospective. Organized by Assistant to the Director Joseph Trovato, the show ranges from schoolboy sketches to some of his last large watercolors, handsomely illuminating Burchfield's special gifts. Sweeping views and majestic scenery were not his forte. Rather, he marveled at nature's moods, the songs of crickets and cicadas, the sound of the wind in the telegraph wires, the intricate structure of a dandelion seed ball. In his view, weeds were as precious as flowers, trees had faces...
...Harvard community, a community that takes pride in its ability to rationally discuss conflicting points of view, the 1968-69 academic year was traumatic. The radical student activism which culminated in the April strike produced shock waves that penetrated every level of the University. Harvard's black students, through the Association of African and Afro-American Students (AAAAS), joined with the larger student body in demanding restructuring and a general educational reform of the University. But the vital energy of AAAAS was focused on a more specific goal: a Department of Afro-American Studies...
These are the types of solutions the new committee is expected to suggest. In view of its commitment to educate women it is hoped that Harvard will soon start to make use of the potential it has created...
...George F. McGrath, New York City Commissioner of the New York City Department of justice justified holding the New York defendants in isolation cells with special security measures by saying that the Panthers were "recognized militants, as part of a formal party which urges people to be antiestablishment. We view them as security risks. It's simply a matter of their proclivity for trouble...
...general the Humanities and Social Sciences encourage the development of a "world view." The organization of facts into comprehensive schematic philosophies is stressed. In the sciences, generalizations are the jumping off point for specific research and scientists tend to be more skeptical of radical demands or rhetoric which is not accompanied by an appendix of facts...