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...these was Marcia Weisman, Norton Simon's sister and a formidable < presence on the cultural horizon of the West Coast. In 1979 she began to lobby L.A.'s mayor, Tom Bradley, for a building -- or at least a site -- for a contemporary art museum, and helped form an ad hoc museum committee. This came to the ears of the community redevelopment agency which was getting ready to let a final eleven-acre parcel of land in Los Angeles' seedy downtown Bunker Hill district. Gradually a deal was hammered out that is unique in the civic relations of American museums...
...into classes in the Anthropolgy Department. "Of course it was a culture shock," he says. "That first year I worked very hard, day and night, to learn the language." Wu Hung eventually elected to write his doctoral thesis on bronze funerary ornaments of the Han Dynasty for an ad hoc committee of members from both the Anthropology and Fine Arts departments...
...just wanted to say that we were right and [the ad hoc committee members] were wrong," Lowell Professor of the Humanities William Alfred said of the department's vote...
...failure so far to make a final decision on Watson was based primarily on the strength of the ad hoc committee's objections, department members...
Department members said that they discussedwhat they believed to be the ad hoc committee'sobjections, summaries of letters from scholarsthat Spence solicited after their first vote, andrecent reviews of Watson's first book,"Shakespeare and the Hazards of Ambition...