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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of our own natures so absurd and defenseless that we would never let a human actor hold it in his hands. This freedom is wonderful, but there is a price What these puppets mean to the millions of people who have watched them is al most embarrassing to express, because the feeling they evoke is nothing less than love . ? John Skow
Although I am not a Harvard student I felt that I have to write you and express my opinion. I am a 20-year old woman who is enraged by your recent refusal to print a Playboy ad for models in the Harvard Crimson. I consider your refusal to be absurd, puritanical and sexist...
Preeminent among the issues on the referendum ballot is the question of re-naming the Engelhard Public Affairs Library at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. While few undergraduates now use the library, it is crucial that they express their distaste for the school's decision to accept a gift from the Charles W. Engelhard Foundation and then honor Engelhard by naming its library after him. Because Engelhard made his fortune by exploiting the labor of South African blacks in gold mines, it seems inappropriate that a library in a school training future public servants should bear his name...
...masses feel some anger, we I must let them express it." With I those words, spoken to a visiting Japanese politician, China's diminutive Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing put an official stamp of approval on the extraordinary eruption of political expression that had gripped Peking for the past two weeks. In an atmosphere reminiscent of London's lively Hyde Park Speakers' Corner, the voices of young orators demanding "true freedom, true democracy and true human rights" echoed through the early winter dusk. Thousands filed past "democracy wall" at the intersection of Chang An Avenue...
Portrait painters and photographers know only too well that the human face is asymmetrical; wrinkles and eyebrow movements vary, and the smile usually breaks from one side to the other. What is more, each side seems to express a different feeling. This phenomenon can best be shown by first covering one half of the face in a portrait, then the other. In most cases, the right side of the subject's face (on the viewer's left) appears pleasant or blank; the left side looks worried, fearful or even a bit sinister. The difference is even more pronounced...