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Loosely-defined at best, the agreement between the colleges left many people in a state of flux over what was what, and who controlled whom...
...innocence she mistakes Sin and Death for Love and Life, but Collier does not doubt her wisdom. She is snubbed by the Archangel Raphael, feels God is unfair to Adam and, wanting a child and the pulsing power of creation, escapes from a passive, vegetarian paradise into the flux of human history...
...Burroughs puts it, "what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing." So, even in their many weaker moments, the poems hold together well, guided by the considerable order of Ginsberg's unconscious experience. The "poems of these states" are an account, Ginsberg says, of "the flux of car bus airplane dream consciousness Person during Automatic Electronic War years." But they often read like a mixed-media Michelin guide to the United States, lapsing into boring details of geography and the latest news report on the radio...
...cumulative notation, airy, insubstantial and very delicate. The process of seeing and the act of drawing are telescoped together. Each mark is a deciphering of the bewildering flux of impressions that beat upon the eye. Arikha's work seems both provisional and irrevocable...
ANOTHER discipline in a state of flux is academic sociology. It is largely an American invention-about 75% of the world's sociologists work in the U.S. The discipline took hold in the universities after the first World War. After World War II, with burgeoning demands for applied social science by both industry and Government, sociologists began to do research and become consultants off campus. Asked to help expose and solve the nation's problems, sociology became almost a wing of the liberal establishment. The "sociology of poverty" was a study in itself, and the '60s were...