Word: academia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born in Osaka, the artist was encouraged to take up painting by his father, a businessman who was also a Sunday painter. Shingu studied oil painting at Tokyo University of Arts, and in 1960 went to Rome's famed Academia di Belle Arti. For months he devotedly copied early-Renaissance masterpieces. Then abruptly he turned abstract, eventually took up mobiles because they can be placed anywhere, indoors...
...willing to jest: "My fellow prisoners seemed to me in no way morally inferior to the rest of the population, though they were on the whole slightly below the usual level of intelligence, as was shown by their having been caught." It ends with his virtual banishment from American academia during World War II, when C.C.N.Y. reneged on its commitment to him because of his reputed permissive attitudes about sex. This Russell finds no laughing matter: "The Government of New York City was virtually a satellite of the Vatican. ... A typical American witch-hunt was instituted against...
...What is wrong with Academia [May 24] is what is wrong with contemporary society as a whole. When I was a young man, an old professor in Germany, who was the greatest man in our field, said to me musingly: "In our profession one needs a certain abnegation." Most of our young men and women today who follow in that old man's footsteps want maximum salaries and leave with pay before they have even begun to think of abnegation. This comes, of course, from the fact that universities and colleges have quadrupled their enrollments and they have...
Coles has developed loyalties to two communities which are in many ways alienated from each other--academia and the poor. This dual loyalty puts Coles in a somewhat anomalous position. His personal and immediate contact with the poor families he studies leaves him critical of attitudes toward the poor held widely in the liberal-radical community he belongs...
...Academia has found itself guilty of neglecting serious moral issues at a time when their consideration was of utmost importance...