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...problem with American behavior ((ETHICS, May 25)) is a disdain for moral absolutes. The seeds of relativism were planted in the 19th and 20th centuries by thinkers like Einstein, Darwin and Freud and nourished in the '60s with the breakdown of the Judeo-Christian moral consensus. The harvest of this situation is the self-indulgence without accountability that we see today in Reagan's America...
Natalia Goncharova's "Grain Harvest"(1908)--the only work of a woman in theexhibit--is a superb example of the "primitivist"folk art. The painting reflects a deliberateattempt at distortion: the trees are blue, anoutline of a cat is painted broadside on the roofof the house, and the geometric regions of intensecolor are startling to say the least. But thesubject of the painting is still traditionalrather than abstract--we see three women hard atwork on the farm...
...plenty also prevails in the bakeries selling moon cakes, a delicacy favored during the autumn harvest-moon festival. Shoppers line up for these heavy round pastries, embossed with good-luck symbols and filled with candied fruits or spiced meats, much like mincemeat...
Half of the proceeds will go to NSCAH, the national organization which will use the money to donate funds on a large scale to groups such as USA for Africa and Second Harvest. HHAC will evenly divide the rest of the money to several food salvage operations and homeless shelters around Cambridge...
Though I can't speak for other campus activists, I can only give Joseph my heartfelt apology that racism, murder, the separation of families and all the bitter harvest of apartheid, bore him, or even put him to sleep. It's ironic that Joseph should charge that "complaints rarely move beyond the whining stage," when he has given us a piece of infantile whining rarely matched even in the Crimson...