Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discovered that structured interviews were not the best way to explore Rauschenberg's multifaceted personality and past. The artist supplied his own approach. He took out catalogues containing his extensive collections of art memorabilia and souvenirs; as he turned the pages, he talked. "The art of the '70s," Hughes notes, "is eclectic: video, earthworks, landscape and straight painting are all part of it. Rauschenberg has done an extraordinary number of things with his life and his art. He is the great model of the multiplicity of this...
...most other matters, the '70s have not yet been named. Historians looking back on American art in the '60s see movements and orthodoxies?Pop art, minimal art, conceptual art, Op art, color-field painting, doctrines about flatness and framing edge, proscriptions, mandates. The categories rattle briskly like punch cards in their slots. Art in the '70s is more polymorphous, less ambitious, harder to sort out. The present creed proclaims belief in the Either, the Or and the Holy Both...
...occasion of the third anniversary of the Polytechnic revolt, we thought it useful to assess its significance for the benefit of our fellow students in the U.S. Their own courageous struggles of the '60s and early '70s were a factor in ending the criminal war against the people of Vietnam. As a new administration is preparing to take over in Washington next January, we hope that American students will continue their efforts to ensure that promises of non-intervention and respect for the rights of foreign peoples are kept...
Hooks may indeed be the best choice to battle what he calls the "sophisticated and subtle" racism of the '70s. A member of one of Memphis' most prominent black families, he became both a lawyer and a minister. He practiced law in Memphis from 1949 to 1965, when Tennessee Governor Frank Clement named him a criminal-court judge; the next year he was elected to an eight-year term in his own right. At the same time, he often preached on Sundays, alternating between a church in Memphis and one in Detroit. Hooks and his wife Frances have...
Western bankers agree that Mobutu is not entirely to blame for the country's troubles. Some fault themselves for being too eager to lend to the unsophisticated nation in the expectation of high returns. Says one Western banker: "What was needed here earlier in the '70s was a guy in a green eyeshade saying 'Wait a minute.' Mobutu didn't know he was in trouble. Western institutions weren't telling him he was getting into trouble. Mobutu has learned a lesson, but the West has too-not to come into a country like...