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DADAISM WAS REVOLUTIONARY in spirit. Politically, it was an attack on bourgeois materialism and coventionalism. In art, Dada prescribed no specific aesthetic, but rather an attitude, a shared feeling that traditional art had somehow failed to reach modern man. The Dadaists sought new modes of expression that would make art...
You constantly assume that Harvard as an institution, which somehow does not include you, is what makes many of its students who are not White, upper- or middle-class, and heterosexual feel bad. And you repeatedly insist that the Harvard Administration should make them feel better. No doubt Harvard as...
The same cheapness characterizes your support for the so-called Third World Center. Here are the facts, stripped of Liberal-Radical sanctimony: Many White students here make many Black students (among others) often feel awful. Some Black students ask the Administration in effect for a place to escape from them...
Short of urging that students improve what you call the Real World, let me propose another campaign for you to undertake to make many students who now feel bad here feel better. Reduce the number of White students, quadruple or quintuple the number of Black, Brown, Yellow, and Red students...
But in the end it is, and must be, Cornell the poet who engages and holds one's attention. Nowhere in surrealism is there a world quite parallel to his. Cornell had no interest in the revolutionary desires of surrealism, in its Sadean heritage or its dandified will to...