Word: goode
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unenlightened viewer's problem, writes Schapiro, is one of "discriminating the good in an unfamiliar form which is often confused by the discouraging mass of insensitive imitations." His argument is simple: we have a moral responsibility to like abstract art and a moral duty to defend it. If we don't fulfill these tasks, we are insensitive. Worse, he labels as brain-damaged those who refuse to properly appreciate modern art. Those who condemn abstraction do so, because they require an "already known order, familiar and reassuring." Amazingly, Schapiro calls on a neurologist to verify this "handicap": "The sense...
Election commissioner Sandra Scheir described student voting as "awfully good." In precinct 6-3, where freshmen and most River House residents vote, turnout increased more than 50 per cent over two years ago. High turnout there could aid council challenger David Sullivan, who was endorsed by several student groups. Returns from Ward 6, Precinct 4, where Mather, Dunster and the Leverett House Towers vote, were unavailable...
Growers unilaterally declared an impasse in the talks and negotiations broke down (The State Agricultural Labor Relations Board charged 28 growers with refusing to bargain in good faith). The employers hired slick public relations men (who ran the Reagan and Ford campaigns) to improve their public image. A favorite public relations tactic is placing deceptive full page ads in major newspapers portraying growers as advocates for farm worker human rights and the union as a threat to worker liberty. These are the same human rights advocates who opposed toilets in the fields and abolition of the short-handled...
Rodney C. Dennis, curator of manuscripts at Houghton, said, "Even relatively unimportant scraps of Kennedy writing have fetched a good deal of money at auction...
...Stenhouse "It was just a cheap trick. He was just trying to lure me into it. My father said it was just not good business." The Stenhouses turned down Charlie O. the next day. They have not heard from him since...