Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schapiro points to Cezanne, who, "in rendering the simplest objects bare of ideal meaning..." demonstrates the power of a creative mind. "The humanity of art," Schapiro tells us, "lies in the artist and not simply in what he represents..." He continues, "the charge of inhumanity brought against painting springs from a failure to see the works as they are." But how "are" they? The best in art "must be discovered in a sustained experience of serious looking and judging...." In other words, Schapiro assures us that if we look long and hard enough we will inevitably see what he sees...
...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 of order in the patient is an expression of his impoverishment with respect to an essentially human trait: the capacity for adequate shifting of attitude...
...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 hoe, and fired thousands of workers for wearing union buttons and backing the UFW. Growers then mobilized well-heeled, professional strikebreaking outfits...
...three governors will sit down with NRC officials and talk about their problems. The issue, though not very attractive, seems fairly clear-cut. The nation is producting a lot of radioactive waste--ranging from the really dangerous stuff that reactors generate to laboratory brands no more radioactive than the human body--and there is no place...
...When you mention radioactivity," explains Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, director of University Health Services, "everybody goes into orbit." As City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci's election eve hysteria in Cambridge indicates, waste disposal is a political hot potato. "Nuclear hysteria," volunteers Dr. Ralph R. DiSibio, Nevada director of human resources, "is spreading...