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...yardstick by which minority inferiority is measured is no longer the distinct rule of law, but the far more labile and equivocal "norm of white middle class culture." The barriers erected in front of the progress of minority groups do not change in fact; only in kind. For the minority students, saddled with more descriptions, labels, assumptions and expectations than a miner's packhorse with pickaxes, the white college or graduate school can be an almost impermeable maze of trials, tasks, hurdles and psychological leaps. If the challenges to these students were only academic, as they are to the "norm...
Matther Copel '79, who studied Blue's work carefully for a paper in Hum 9b last spring, finds two distinct types of stories in Blue's work: parodies of folk tales, like "Little Blue Riding Hood," and the autobiographical material, which Copel calls "totally oral." Copel doesn't believe Blue has ever memorized any of his autobiographical work, and Blue himself denies even writing it down. "I never do a work the same way twice. I try to work like a jazz musician, blowing an old song from my soul, but blowing it ever new," he says. Blue sees...
...plucked blueberry suggests the frontier. The faces of Wyeth's cast of bucolic characters-the Kuerners in Pennsylvania, the Ericksons and Olsons in Maine -are almost as familiar, though less physiognomical, to his audience as those of Johnny Carson, Richard Nixon or Bugs Bunny. Moreover, everything is distinct. One gets every last blade of grass on the cold hill, delivered in low, muted colors that suggest a kind of flinty and puritan sincerity. Small wonder, then, that a large public considers Wyeth the Great American Artist-or that the opposition to him has been, in some quarters, as violent...
...million from the sales of Wyeth catalogues and souvenir reproductions alone. To ram the point home, a boutique has been set up at the show's exit, and visitors have no choice but to run the gauntlet. Hard sell Hoving strikes again; and one sees another small but distinct step in the Met's transformation from the greatest encyclopedic museum in America into a grandiose West Side extension of Bloomingdale...
...Contrary to what many along the American political spectrum have argued, voters do face a distinct choice on Election Day 1976," read Thursday's Crimson editorial (October 28). I beg to differ. Strongly. At best the choice can be called ambiguous, and for many the vote for Carter will be a reluctant...