Word: berkeley
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...country," they formed a company called Telethon to document that reality off the TV screen. Telethon's first big project is a traveling show called The Television Environment-a thoroughly engaging, nonstop bombardment of slides and live TV that is currently playing at art museums in Vancouver, B.C., Berkeley and Pasadena, Calif., Tallahassee, Fla., and Baltimore...
Nevertheless, as forerunners-or fore-sitters-of the TV generation, Adler and Margolies are apologists for what they admit are television's "give-them-what-they-want aesthetics." They believe it is TV that makes things real, which may seem like a rather naive electronic version of Bishop Berkeley's metaphysics (a tree must be perceived if it is to exist). "If there is a garbage strike and your own neighborhood is unaffected, there is no garbage strike unless you see it on TV," says Adler. "If Abbie Hoffman never set foot on TV, there would...
...country. In that era--when Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus, brought his genius to the GSD first as dean and later as professor emeritus--its attraction both to students and faculty was unparalleled. No more, Today, the GSD is flatly a second-rate school of design. MIT, Berkeley and perhaps one or two others, have become the leaders in planning and design because they have been able to do something Harvard has not--change in response to the demands of society...
...Africa, she sees Third World poverty and asks her father to put his money where his mouth is. The radicalizing of his teen-ager catches Henry faking. He begs the question. Like a deceptively mild inquisitor, Author Read keeps turning the screws. Louisa moves on to the Free-Speech Berkeley of the mid-'60s and comes home after being liberated, married and divorced, all by 19. When she begins picking up bartenders on Boston Common and joins a revolutionary cell made up of his own students, Henry can no longer duck his daughter or himself...
Arthur Katz, author of Ben Israel, Odyssey of a Modern Jew, will tell about the crisis that led him to become a Christian Jew in the Kirkland House JCR tonight at 7:30 p.m. Katz, a Berkeley graduate who was active in Communist front activities during the fifties, also authored The Bible, the Supernatural, and the Jews...