Word: aime
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Community Development for the Urban League, "or do they put those resources in the hands of the community? Right now they're destroying us, not helping us." Community leaders want research and planning projects sub-contracted to Roxbury groups so they can hire the academics and staffs. The aim is not to force whites out--though the change would undoubtedly make more jobs for black professionals--but to give Roxbury control over its destiny and give blacks a chance to develop managerial skills. Community control and community development are Roxbury's byways in talking with Harvard and with the establishment...
...relevant to today's life. They want a larger voice in choosing professors and framing courses. Particularly in Europe and Latin America, student radicals view the university as a microcosm of society, with its lack of class mobility, its numerous bureaucracies, its concentration on material goals. Their aim is to transform the university from a personnel agency for the economy to a more vocal force for social protest and reform. They want it to take over the role once held by such recently tamed institutions as Britain's Labor Party, West Germany's Social Democrats...
...will leave delighted. And why not? The whole construction is a cross between a set from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Disneyland. Is it art? Directors of museums and owners of art galleries insist that it, and similar installations, are. The general term for them is "environments"; their aim is to box the spectator within a micro-universe and bombard him from all sides with wacky sights, weirdo sounds and otherworldly sensations, ranging from the feeling of weightlessness to hopped-up, psychedelic hallucinations. So popular with the general public have they become that dozens of contemporary museums and galleries...
...said that another reason could be behind his draft board's change of mind. An entertainer in his spare time, he wrote a musical letter to General Hershey to the tune of "Old Smokey," in which he insists that Hershey would have to come with him to Vietnam to aim...
Most of the new works are by California artists who practice a particularly virulent form of pop art known as "funk," the aim of which seems to be to put on everything and everyone in sight. Mentor of the group is San Francisco Sculptor Peter Voulkos, now 44, who a decade ago at Los Angeles' Otis Art Institute introduced a whole generation of art students to ceramics. Among his disciples was Berkeley's James Melchert, 37, who today turns out baffling ceramic figurines molded like coffee mugs, Mickey Mouse heads or crumpled rags; they are to be used...