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...better understanding of fine arts and the visual world may result from first-hand experience with what the artists saw and the materials of line and color they used to deal with that "what." A painting of a nude makes more sense to one who has seen a nude...
...subsequent Chicago conspiracy trail. Its founders never fooled themselves about that piece of fiction, realizing that their alleged movement of astrology freaks, SDSers, Trotskvites, blacks, students, pacifists, and so forth, had little in common, aside from their general disgust with America. And they eventually learned about factionalism first-hand when their own organization fell apart...
MOST OF US are vaguely aware that the Harvard bureaucracy is a barely manageable machine that consists of many unwieldy and unoiled parts. But rarely does the opportunity arise to observe Harvard's bureaucratic failure first-hand, particularly the bitter behind-the-scenes fighting which often takes place. The Advanced Standing director, has demonstrated bureaucratic irresponsibility and has created an ongoing bureaucratic battle between his office and the Registrar...
...more time, I would talk about automobile warranties, an area which the performance of GM and other manufacturers has been strongly condemned by the Federal Trade Commission. I have a feeling, however, that many of you have sufficient first-hand experience with that problem...
...their little brothers and sisters, their younger friends, or their tutorial students, many of us have less claim to first-hand experience than they do. Cowan's book (subtitled "A Dialogue with Experience") can be rewardingly informative for the movement's second generation. The college student of the early Seventies has a real problem articulating his unwillingness to work from within to change his government. He often feels disarmed by liberal parents who insist that he "give it a chance...