Word: academia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might, and he did try, he could not transcend for long the monochromatic lugubriousness of his emotional palette. Yet his sound is so distinctive, his melodies are so appealing, his orchestrations so skillful, that Rachmaninoff's music simply will not go away, despite the condescension of academia and the critics. He may not have written music "of his own time" (assuming serialism and atonality to be the proper fashion), but then neither does Benjamin Britten nor Dmitri Shostakovich. Nor, in other eras, did Edward Elgar or Bach worry about being in vogue...
...lifelong Chicagoan, Greeley, at 45, feels like an outcast from the city's academia and his diocese. Perhaps too melodramatically, given his loyal circle of friends, he sees himself as a "lonely" and "marginal" priest. But he hardly seems forlorn. In warm months, he shuttles in his Volkswagen between his gloomy Victorian room in the city and a rambling old beach house in Grand Beach, Mich., where he keeps a small sailboat, scuba gear and water skis. Beyond that, there is the puckish Greeley to cheer the melancholy Greeley up: "The only time I really feel lonely is when...
William Shockley is a name that arouses more hatred and anger than any other in academia. The shrewish, white-haired Stanford professor, who was awarded the Nobel physics prize in 1948 for inventing the transistor, has become in recent years the prime symbol of the school of thought which maintains that blacks are genetically inferior to whites...
...Institute has never pretended to be the hard cutting edge of the affirmative action movement," Jeffrey Sagansky '74, chairman of the Institute's Student Advisory Committee, said yesterday, "but basically it sounds like part of the Republican conspiracy theory of academia." In addition to his activity with the Institute, Sagansky is a Young Republican...
...given fresh contexts. One, a snow shovel, is labeled In Advance of the Broken Arm and signed by Duchamp. The other, entitled Fountain and signed R. Mutt, received a little more attention in its time (1917); it is an unadorned urinal. These are less creations than gestures, nosethumbing at academia, at mass production and, finally, at art itself...