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...hiring of radical professors: "It seems to me that if 1400 students signed that petition and got no response from the University, the Commission should take it over." I fear you have, and not for the first time, juxtaposed two statements of mine in such a way as to convey a false impression. I do indeed feel that if 1400 students sign a petition, then the appropriate University office should entertain it and respond to it, and if that office will not do so, or if the appropriate office cannot be determined, the Commission should accept the petition. It does...
...right the general tone of the painting grows green; there the bordering strokes are green on white. On the left, a plunging red streak ignites the entire canvas like a flare thrown across the night. (I describe the painting in such detail because it is impossible to convey any good idea of the painting in black and white reproduction -- that is the cost of successfully merging color and form...
...book, and the glorification of such characters never ceases to frighten me -- particularly when someone like McMurtry portrays him as charming and attractive. If we are meant to recognize the ridiculousness of the existence of such a figure in the modern world, McMurtry's techniques do not convey it. I respect McMurtry's desire not to remove himself from the grounds of his inspiration, and to continually deal with the settings and people he really cares about. But his work, for all its regional color, only dramatizes the moral purity of children, and displays an inability to come to grips...
...sure, an inside man. He dressed like one and affects the urbane manner that one associates with a Harvard dean. In fact, many have concluded that he left his blackness back in the Louisiana bayous. He is also cautious, responding carefully to questions, meticulously framing answers that convey just the "right" impression to the listener. His voice is even and well-trained. It betrays not a hint of Epps's deep South roots...
...populism and the origins of unionized labor. He writes like a good journalist, with a knack for vivid description of those events which did most to shape the consciousness of "the people." He is not making a subtle argument, not digging for causes. He is instead trying to convey an alien character of mind, to make us appreciate that the misery and insecurity of the poor could co-exist with calculating businessmen who sympathized very little...