Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighting, pathetic, but defiant. Sometimes, beneath the shadow of an unseen airplane, his people stream across an open plaza routed from a riot, or perhaps in some more existential form of flight. Other canvases are composed of a series of panels reminiscent of a strip of movie film or contact prints: La Protesta (the Protest), for example, shows a couple shaking fists in one quarter of the canvas, fleeing in the next, lying dead in a pool of blood in the final half...
...does visit the office, but mostly he uses dictating machines to communicate with his staff, sometimes producing recorded memos 30 pages long. Two secretaries, one on day shift, the other on night shift, transcribe the flow. The complete man of electronics, he avoids face-to-face contact and gets his information on the outside world from newspapers, magazines and eight television monitors. He rarely watches a TV show when it is on the air, has it taped for later viewing, and also keeps a stock of several hundred taped movies...
...Left has a problem, Lipset continues, because they can't have it both ways. They complain first that they don't have any courses which are applicable today-- "We (the Left) are locked up in an Ivory Tower which has no contact with the events of today." But when the Ivory Tower is torn down, and the real world turns out to be the Establishment, then they want to rebuild their fortress--their Ivory Tower. "What the Left really wants is a politicized campus with a Left Penchant," or else they will scream that Theory is their protection against short...
Except for the popular weekly staff luncheon, few of the Center's members have much contact with their colleagues from other disciplines. To Chester W. Hartman, assistant professor of City Planning, the main advantage in having half his salary paid by the Joint Center is that it reduces his obligation to the City Planning Department, which requires too much teaching to suit his tastes...
...associates' stay in the Houses will be their major contact with undergraduates during their three-day visits. Some, however, will also talk to undergraduate political organizations and seminars...