Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...throwing the new country open to all comers. That not only served to make the U.S. a world power in sheer numbers (compared, for instance, with Canada, which kept its population small and has complained ever since about being overpowered by its southern neighbor). It also greatly reinforced the abstract and ideological nature of American patriotism. The millions from other lands and other cultures had different loves for many different plots of earth, languages, traditions. The unifying love had to be for America as an idea...
...Transamerica building looks like a cross between an oil derrick and the Pyramid of Cheops. The latest statement-if not the last word-is New York's: its shimmering 34-story One United Nations Plaza, designed by Architects Roche/Dinkeloo and opened last month, has taken a form as abstract as a minimal sculpture...
...Island. It was painted, however, from an old snapshot and memory; Gorky's mother died of starvation In Soviet Armenia after the family had fled the Turkish massacre. Gorky remained obsessed by the tragedy all his life. In the years before he hanged himself in 1948, he painted abstract reveries from his past like Garden in Sochi...
After five years it is evident that Bok's 1971 promise to the Faculty to dedicate "his principal efforts in the future to education in its fullest sense" has not meant a search for holistic, abstract new educational philosophies but a strenuous concern with the nitty gritty of faculty appointments. "Care in making appointments is crucial," Bok says, "for Harvard can easily survive a mediocre president if it appoints the ablest professors, but the institution will go down hill steadily, regardless of its president, if mediocre appointments are allowed to be made...
Those who attack The Crimson for its principled stand on these issues, in the name of some abstract, foggy and even self-contradictory concept called "objective journalism," are as absurd and disgusting as that woman who said she would cooperate in an effort to undermine the livelihood, the daily bread, of people who have fed her at her convenience for the last four years, simply because she is a "liberal economist." The anti-Crimson mood, and its representatives like Peter Keyes '78, reminds me of Spiro Agnew's diatribes against the left-wing bias of the "Eastern Establishment" press...