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...poorly taught neoclassical theory and to look for some group which really cares about him or her. The radical courses tend to be better taught, and the radical economics group (URPE) offers a needed sense of comraderie. Thus many students soon become believers that neoclassical theory is a "crock of shit...
Fresh Faces. The media mob included Feminist Germaine Greer (who quickly characterized the convention as "a crock of s-") as well as an "alternative audio collective" called Unicorn Press, which provided spots for some 30 rock radio stations. Yippie Leader Jerry Rubin and his colleague Abbie Hoffman were accredited for the purpose of writing a book about the convention, but they waggishly passed themselves off as correspondents for, respectively. Mad magazine and Popular Mechanics. Politicians who had been excluded from the convention floor by party reform, like Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty and California Congressman Jess Unruh, showed...
...young English instructor offered to share his knowledge of a Walt Whitman first edition with his class, a black student answered: "Look, man, you're into this first-edition bag, and that's all right with me, understand. But man, I think it's a crock...
Failed Assumption. The simpler art looks, the more esoteric it seems to get. Probably this happens because we expect a work of art to be a rich crock of ideas and visual transactions, and if the box on the floor seems nothing of the sort we assume that its complexities have merely veiled themselves, rather than gone. A great many works of second-rate minimal art-complacently irreducible objects set up with a phony air of discovery, didactic in look but teaching nothing-have benefited from this assumption. But Judd is one of those reductive talents who operate...
...early spring, a furry black or gray growth covers the mash. The Koreans scrape off this "exuberant fungus," as Seel described it, and soak the loaves in brine for a month. Then they pour off the black liquid, which is soy sauce, and make the debris left in the crock into a stiff soya paste. Some Koreans eat little of the paste, but others indulge at the rate of five ounces or more...