Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whispering very emotionally as he explained all this to his friend. Like a man who had found Truth, he was compelled to spread the word. And like a good evangelist he had skillfully woven myth and fact, vision and reality, into a web so entangled that you could never be really sure of anything...
...colleagues, or in Eugene Atget's pictures of Paris streets at the turn of the century. Meyerowitz's work, which ranked on the "windows" side of the New York show, has a kind of emphatic resplendence that the best early photographers, soberly concerned with the hard documentary fact, would never allow...
...present in the world, even in Provincetown; that to live in a salubrious vacuum like Cape Cod is something of a luxury and a privilege, with all the possible, complacent delusions attendant to luxury and privilege at full work; that most women are not bathing beauties, and that this fact is not necessarily a misfortune; that to see, in Wordsworth's phrase, into the life of things, requires a particular kind of mental firmness behind the eye's excitement: that real perception and understanding involve more than ecstatic staring...
...each other. The benefits of mutual support and encouragement, synthesis of ideas, and organization and pooling of resources and energy would be great. Perhaps students who did find each other in such a manner would be able to accomplish something outside the framework of the current committee system. (In fact, one group of students might work to begin changing such an unrepresentative system--you can bet that the impetus for this could never come from within...
...most fascinating aspect of all of this is that the conference is real--it does in fact exist and it will take place. Yes, it is not just an idea. In fact, other schools have already demonstrated widespread interest. The University of Pennsylvania has endorsed participation by a ratio of 1586 to 77 in a recent referendum. This represents the largest turnout ever for a vote of this kind at Penn. Brown has raised all of its money and selected all of its delegates. Cornell has over 100 people actively working on the conference. Stanford has nearly as many working...