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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee on Faculty Organization (Fainsod Committee) will hold an open meeting to hear proposals on the role of students in Faculty decision-making 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. tonight in Geological Lecture Room. Representatives of student organizations or individual students who wish to present proposals should get in touch with Professor Merle Fainsod, chairman of the Committee, today. Professor Fainsod can be reached at the Director's Office, Widener Library on Extension 2401. The Committee will welcome written statements as well as oral presentations...
...municipio is a cluster of villages around a "ceremonial center," where there are the town hall, jail, church, marketplace and a school. In the municipio of Zinacantan, for example, most of the 7600 Indians live in the surrounding hamlets, called parajes, moving in to the center only when they hold one of the many religious or political posts, or have protracted business in the market. Travel between the center and the villages is frequent and routine. Each paraje has its own political structure, and the political system in the municipio draws on all the parajes. The Zinacantecos have an agricultural...
Mosaics of Rubble. Nine years ago, Kolář, who was primarily a symbolic poet, abandoned formal verse altogether. Now he spends nine hours a day gluing tiny fragments of newsprint and photographs onto plaques, bas-reliefs, house hold objects and sculpted forms. "I am still a poet," he says, "in the sense that I am a shaper of symbolic meanings from information spewed out by our technological civilization. But I'm using the poetry of objects because I feel that the irrational logic of our time cries out for fresh expression...
...home-baked bread, for which he won many prizes at county fairs. Afterward, everybody pitched horseshoes in the backyard and listened to Blair's inexhaustible tales of his and other people's pasts. His speech was marked by rattling prosody and tart aphorisms. Samples: "Two bottles that hold less than they appear to hold are a perfume bottle and a whisky bottle." "Truth is stranger than falsies." "We can't go through the eye of a needle because of our baggage...
...would glitter less I would not have to despise him so much, and how much time and energy I spend on despising him, but there seems to have been a bargain struck between us, and I don't know how to get out of it, surely it cannot hold forever...