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...this new self-definition and self-assertiveness of blacks must more fully enter the functional dimension. For too many black students, "blackness" is defined solely within the ritualistic sphere; that is, being one with the Black Geist deals only on the symbolic level. Black cultural uniqueness must be preserved, but it also must invorporate achievement-oriented behavior that has been universally and historically proven to elevate the power-mustering capacity of a people, thereby alleviating the oppression of blacks...
Nearly eleven years ago, a 27-year-old sculptor named Mark di Suvero had his first show in New York. His burly constructions of steel pipe, chains and massive timbers had an exhilarating effect on younger New York artists; hosannas rose from critics. "Here," exclaimed Sidney Geist in Arts magazine, "was a body of work so ambitious and intelligent, so raw and clean, so noble and accessible, that it must permanently alter our standards of artistic effort...
That, insofar as other cultures embody strange intellectual Geisten . these may be fit for anthropological study, but they are not valid alternatives to the contemporary Anglo-Saxon Geist, being basically "unscientific," and they are not to be pursued by a conscientious student for purposes of intellectual liberation...
...been trained as a cabinetmaker, and when he worked in wood, he could express himself with peasant vigor. The jagged forms of The Cock, shown here in bronze, were originally carved in wood, concentrating the character of the barnyard bully into his aggressive beak and flaring tail feathers. Sidney Geist, author of the leading study of Brancusi's work and guest curator of the current exhibition, puts the matter succinctly: "Enviable in its scope, dazzling in its perfections, tentative only in its repetitions, the scale of this effort is human rather than superhuman...
...single hit that Kalinoski relinquished between the first and ninth innings drove in two runs in Northeastern's half of the sixth. After Kalinoski hit pinch-hitter Bill Shea and walked right-fielder Cam VanderVeer, Bob Geist singled into center to narrow the lead to two runs...