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...destroy the ideal of the microcosm. Harvard, in the words of Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, feels its free-choice system "helps to increase student satisfaction with their assignment," yet the one of five students sent to undesired Houses--ones where the racial group to which they belong may be proportionately outnumbered--no doubt feels more embittered than Yale's randomly assigned students...
...been an easy one 25 years ago-to apply the latent violence of abstract expressionist paint handling to the solid medium of clay: to twist, punch and slash the continuous form one expects of a pot's surface, opening it up to create the visible inner spaces that belong to sculpture. Compared with the best abstract expressionist Voulkos' sculpture (David Smith's, say), somewhat clumsy and overworked, but its impact on the art community in California was immense; Voulkos had opened up the territory of an entire medium, and the use of clay became a standard sign...
...long, men and women of all ages, occupations and economic classes tend to suffer a sharp loss of selfesteem, a diminished sense of identity, a certain murkiness of purpose, a sense of estrangement from their friends-a sort of feeling of exile from wherever they feel they really belong...
...idea of Communism is both ancient and simple. It is also, in many respects, sensible and admirable. Private ownership creates inequalities, which carry with them injustices, which generate tensions, which lead to conflict. Therefore property should belong to the community as a whole...
Therefore proletarians must rise up against their exploiters and establish a new society in which there would be no significant private ownership. Everything would belong to the community as a whole; goods and services would be produced "from each according to his abilities" and distributed...