Word: deserter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YEAR AGO the Harvard-Radcliffe literary scene was a desert, with but one ancient and mangy camel (the Advocate) stumbling through it, cranking out two or three issues a year. But this year all sorts of new or rejuvenated dromedaries have begun trotting across those shifting library sands. The Advocate, under new leadership, came out of the Dark Ages with regular issues, glossy covers, and lots of advertising. A group of creative writing students and friends organized an alternative literary magazine, Padan Aram, which emerged with several graphically-innovative and successful issues...
Diaspora is a big magazine--52 pages of expression. What this briskly trotting publication needs now, in the desert that still is the Harvard-Radcliffe literary scene, is oases--Diaspora ("a dispersion as of people of a common national culture into other countries") is crying out for reading...
...comment for the article; he told The Quarterly he "viewed the colonies with horror." Wald called Harvard's Le Corbusier-designed Carpenter Center "a goldfish bowl--just the thing for an artist." He described Paolo Solari, the Arizona architect, as "that gifted man, making bony structures in the American desert." Wald's point is that this kind of dehumanizing architecture is getting us ready for space colonies, like...
...setting was the elegant Kenyatta Conference Center in Nairobi, where 3,000 delegates from 124 countries had gathered for the quadrennial meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Kissinger had earlier come out in support of a $7.5 billion development project to "turn back the desert" in the drought-stricken Sahel region of West Africa. His Nairobi speech laid out a comprehensive program to deal with the fundamental problems of development in poor lands everywhere. His recommendations included plans...
...Friends Desert. The showdown reflected a fierce internal power struggle that, in the words of U.M.W. Secretary-Treasurer Harry Patrick, "is tearing our union apart." The battle between Miller and Trbovich-and Miller and a majority of the U.M.W.'s 21-member executive board-has paralyzed union leadership, and threatens to erode the reforms that are turning the once corrupt and authoritarian U.M.W. into a progressive labor organization...