Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mark Herbert of San Francisco is Harris's Massachusetts campus coordinator. Handing out leaflets at yesterday's Harris rally in Sanders Theater, he said it was "essential" that Harris do well in the Tuesday Mass Primary...
...Harris is the only candidate I'd support," Herbert said. He added that 300 students are travelling here from Washington, D.C. and Maryland to work for Harris this weekend...
...Herbert said he doesn't know what he will do if the Harris campaign fizzles. "Maybe go back to California and work for Tom Hayden," he said. But Herbert smiled and added. "Harris won't fizzle...
...peasants are large. They fill the foreground. They make it uncomfortable to be the traditional audience of salon painting, the middle-class observer. They are also deliberately iconic. Herbert points out that in Millet's Going to Work, 1850, the young peasant couple striding through the fields is based on Masaccio's fresco of Adam and Eve, expelled from Eden and condemned to labor. This resonance is deepened by the potato basket on the wife's head and by the thong she carries like the attribute of a martyr...
Reality Grasped. Millet's sympathies were republican. His whole conception of peasant realism was in tune with, and fortified by, the political experiences of 1848: to grasp plebeian reality was to engage in a revolutionary act. But he was no militant. As Herbert is careful to show, Millet's imagination was fatalistic and conservative: the peasants, in his view, could never escape their cycle of toil but were bound like weary oxen to the mill of earth and seasons. That was the root experience of his own peasant childhood...