Word: doned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take seriously, but these artists are more playful than most. A gallery instillation that has you walk down a long dark tunnel to confront a white painting with the words You Are Here neatly lettered in black, certainly is more playful than the Sistine Chapel. (It was done this summer in London by John Lennon and his new mistress.) It is a kind of art that seems to ignore or to have moved beyond moral considerations (which is in part what makes it so infuriating for a criticism which is still involved with moral standards and Matthew Arnolds...
...people who have given the money have done so with the expectation that it would be used for Harvard's own purposes," Calkins said, "As long as that expectation is strong, I would oppose the use of Harvard money in low-income areas...
Things finally erupted in Clinton, Tennessee. After a Life photographer had done a story on "Peaceful Integration In Clinton," Clinton's parents struck back. Weeks of rioting and violence followed, and spread to other cities in the South. The most important result was that Southerners learned that President Eisenhower was less than eager to jump into their affairs. These things should be left to the states, Ike said; and the states were glad to have them. It wasn't until the notorious Little Rock showdown of the mid fifties that federal force was used at all, and for the rest...
...Federal judges in Alabama were not impressed. They clamped down Freedom of Choice, and George Wallace, as he had done before in the University of Alabama doorway, backed down. A few whites migrated to the private schools, but they came back soon. Public schools continued...
...Choice when it didn't "speedily end the dual school system," the Justice Department asked for more radical measures. Specifically, it wanted the court to close many black schools and begin bussing and zoning plans to achieve racial balance in the schools. And it wanted all of this done before the 1968 school year opened...