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...result is that everything Olden burg makes is a testament to polymor phous perversity. Men construct arti facts and these, by some mysterious process of imitation, end up looking (to Oldenburg) like parts of bodies. These similarities are basic to his imagery...
...inevitable. Mr. Herrnstein's syllogism is based upon an assumption of a viciously competitive and heirarchical society. We need not accept the cynical point of view which says that naturally occuring human diversity leads to the extension of one person's power over another. It is possible to construct a society which emphasizes cooperation and no competition; a society which embraces human diversity, not as an opportunity for one group of men and women to oppress another group, but as a gift which can be used to the benefit of all. In such a society, human diversity is not measured...
Straw Dogs is a brilliant feat of movie making. Peckinpah, working outside America and outside the western genre for the first time, uses the brooding monochromes of the Cornish countryside to construct a self-contained universe of indifferent terrors, in which, according to Lao-tze: "Heaven and earth are not humane. They regard all things as straw dogs." (Straw dogs are Chinese artifacts of the 3rd century B.C., first worshiped, then sacrificially burned...
...chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee; in Lexington, Va. Robertson was born the same year and in the same town (Martinsburg, W. Va.) as the late Harry Byrd Sr., and both conservative Democrats entered the Virginia state senate at the same time in 1916. Byrd went on to construct a powerful statewide political organization that made him one of the Senate's most influential Southerners. Robertson built a reputation as an economic conservative, advocating drastic budget cuts to forestall Government-fueled inflation. His defeat by William Spong in the 1966 Democratic primary was largely a result...
...Riverside Tenants Council, claiming that Harvard had unfairly taken possession of the land, had earlier demanded that Harvard construct low-cost housing on the site. At that time Harvard intended to use it for faculty housing...