Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...numbers of his colleagues a "serious" artist of the first rank. "In linking art to the modern consciousness," declares Art Critic Harold Rosenberg, "no artist is more relevant than Steinberg. That he remains an art-world outsider is a problem that critical thinking in art must compel itself to confront." That showdown is about to begin. This week an exhibition of 258 drawings, watercolors, paintings and assemblages by Steinberg opens at New York City's Whitney Museum, accompanied by a book (Saul Steinberg; Knopf; $10.95 softcover) with critical appraisal of the artist by Rosenberg...
Most important, the idea of a core mistakenly assumes that the predominantly elite, middle-aged, white, male Harvard Faculty can discover and prescribe a single academic program that is central to the intellectual development of every Harvard student. In reality, however, students will eventually confront life-styles and problems that many Faculty members will never dream...
...move would be politically feasible. He said that "we Americans do not like long, protracted struggles or conflicts. So we are constantly driven to find some simplistic solutions-SALT, détente and others-to the problem. But there is no easy or quick substitute for being prepared to confront the Russians when their aggressiveness creeps into areas we consider vital." Concluded Goodpaster: "You are right. This may be a kind of endless task. Thus we should not hold out the hope to the American people that the military threat from the Soviet Union is likely to fade...
...just stop saying it. That's why I don't want to be a corporate lawyer. I don't want my focus to be narrowed that way. I'd rather be on the other side of the courtroom from somebody I feel has been really oppressed, and confront the fact that I may be continuing his oppression, than go into a law firm where the focus narrows to where I no longer have to accept responsibility for what I am doing...
MANY COLLEGES around the country are being forced by student concern to confront the issue of investments in firms operating in South Africa. Protests, teach-ins, demands for divestiture of stock in these companies and national media attention all arise from tension between administrative profit-oriented stock decisions and student demands for strong action against firms helping support apartheid. Often the debate focuses on the possible benefits of U.S. corporations remaining in South Africa and pursuing progressive racial policies under apartheid. Other questions that loom large in the student-administration "dialogue" concern the role of U.S. banks in financing apartheid...