Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation has produced a new kind of patron. "Most collectors today are not just satisfied with buying art, they want to buy a piece of the artist as well," grumbles one dissenter. "They want to belong to the art world, go see dirty movies at night at Andy Warhol's apartment." And Warhol in turn becomes a feature of gossip columns and a fixture at society's tables. Any day now he may be wrapped in plaster by the plaster master, George Segal, and propped against the bar in somebody's penthouse...
There is really no sound reason for requiring the statement, and none was given by the legislators who introduced it. The original legislation, passed in 1958, obligated students to sign a disclaimer, swearing that they didn't believe in or belong to any organization which advocated overthrowing the government, in addition to the loyalty oath. Harvard helped lead the fight against the disclaimer--losing about three million dollars in the process when it refused to accept money on these terms. And in 1962, the nation's universities finally persuaded Judge Howard Smith, then the courtly autocrat of the House Rules...
Paranoid Violence. The men responsible for all of this comprise a remarkably young group of radical leaders who belong to the far-left wing of the Baath Party, a mystical Arab brotherhood whose main aim is the nationalization of everything and everyone in the Middle East. Since they seized power from a more moderate group of Baathists last year, Syria's new leaders have turned the country onto a path of near-paranoid violence. Oddly enough, the three men who administer the government are all trained physicians: Premier Youssef Zayyen, 36; Chief of State Noureddin Attassi, 37; and Foreign...
...club system creates its own antisystem, centered at the Wilson Society. A disproportionate number of Jews belong to that anti-system. But Jews are not the only outcasts...
More than 90 per cent of the upperclassmen belong to clubs. Clubs are for eating, partying, talking, and little else. One club--Tower--sponsors speakers and discussions, but none of the other clubs do anything like that...