Word: bag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city and a bed of red and white stripes straight from Old Glory. Wesselmann, 32, talks a good deal about the "esthetic relationship" between what is painted in a collage and the object that is stuck onto it, but his esthetics often turn out to be a bag of raucous gimmicks that merely assault the nerves. He pictures one of his nudes with a real TV set, and he once put a telephone into a collage in order to "make it come alive when the phone rings...
...BAG's demand will be justified only under three conditions: If its methods are the only means of ending job discrimination, if they do not force the company to hire unqualified personnel, and if BAG negotiators use restraint and flexibility in demanding quotas...
...BAG has met these requirements. The Wonder Bread company probably would never have hired Negroes, except as janitors of drivers on undesirable routes, if BAG's boycott had proved ineffective. And to make their campaign succeed, BAG spokesman had to be able to point to an unfilled quota--a number of jobs from which qualified Negroes were barred...
...quota system cannot work properly where qualified persons are scarce or qualification difficult to determine. The jobs BAG demanded, however, require only minimal skills--the ability to drive a truck or do simple arithmetic. And BAG had more than enough qualified Negroes available; several of them had already applied...
...BAG did not make their quota inflexible. It adjusted it s demands from twelve to seven jobs when it learned that an automated plant the company was building would reduce the number of jobs available to BAG applicants. The Group was formed to end discrimination, not to boycott companies for spite. Indeed, BAG must have the cooperation of businessmen if it is to realize its long-range objectives, for these men will do the hiring. Hopefully, BAG will continue to use the reasonable methods that have been so effective against Wonder bread...