Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are the numberless artists who lived to express their visions, or merely to earn applause, or both: Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Raphael and Mozart, who aimed to please; El Greco, Goya, Picasso, Beethoven, Proust and Yeats, who mostly aimed to please themselves. And there are those who found in art a refuge from reality, either through true talent, like the runaway Gauguin, or through some talent mixed with posing, like Byron, Hemingway and Dali, or no talent at all, like the hundreds of pseudo artists who succeed on borrowed ideas and hand-me-down rebellion. There are the great artistic eccentrics...
Apparently the Association's primary purpose is to form an intellectual community to discuss an important problem and to express an important point of view. Negroes in America are in a unique position. They must draw upon history and their perception of the present to determine whether they can in fact become an equal part of the American plurality, or whether they must turn their allegiance towards Africa. Americans, with or without African background, have not found it easy to articulate or accept this conception of the question, but it is a question which must be examined by Negro intellectuals...
Inseparable from this freedom, Conway said, is "the striving after excellence." At Harvard, a place "impressed by all outstanding achievement," the striving after excellence is "the final liberating element," for in the College "anti-intellectualism cannot be found; no one need fear to express an idea, and no one need conceal the fact that he has brains...
...Nittles '36, was more interested in the organizations to which Lynn belonged than in his reasons for joining them. Nittle's questions about Cuba dealt mostly with Americans Lynn might have seen there, and not at all with the country itself. Only occasionally was the witness provided room to express a substantive point of view, and then his statements were overlooked...
...confirm in many an old suspicion that Hiss is constitutionally incapable of liking anything on the Harvard stage. As he, too, now makes his adicux in a last review he would like to seize a final opportunity not only to deny this most ill-informed of calumnies but to express as vigorously as possible his admiration for all of Harvard's drama. If its best is excellent judged by the highest standards, it is certainly no slur to say that its worst is bad by those same standards. Always it is luminous for its energy and its intelligence...