Word: inference
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...various published interviews with Bob Dylan are the most exciting parts of the anthology. His esoteric clowning occasionally seems clumsily arrogant, though the stupidity of some questions makes his reactions understandable. One can infer from a later interview in Rolling Stone that Dylan's attitude has become more cooperative even if his explanations are still characteristically elliptical. Inferring the development of an individual's personality from interviews like these is dangerous, however, especially since Dylan takes himself less seriously than did his interviewers...
...straightforwardly enough on January 10, 1972 with a simple memo from Moos to Epps requesting Harvard facilities for "a Convention on Racism." (Note that in this early missive no preconceived normative judgements concerning racism are implied.) Little can be said about this opening volley; it would be unfair to infer a subtle threat when Moos continues the SDS tradition of relating better to administration buildings than to their occupants by saying: "I or other members of SDS would like to discuss costs and other arrangements with your office." One problem is that this is the only document in the collection...
...most demanding schools in Paris. "I think I am pretty safe in saying," wrote a friend, "that from his adolescence, every day of Vuillard's life has presented itself to him in the rainbow light of a moral predicament . . . Vuillard takes everything to heart." One might not infer that from Vuillard's subject matter, which conjures an intimate world of material satisfactions: the Third Republic interiors, with their mottled wallpaper and yellow light glowing thickly on well-stuffed chairs: the clutter of books, statuettes, lamps, dishes, forks; the poetry of possession. One of his portrait subjects is said...
...legal system to defend themselves, often with success. Dr. Spock's conviction for conspiring to counsel young men in draft evasion was reversed. The Black Panthers, who see "politics" in every prosecution attempt, have an extraordinarily successful acquittal record. Even Angela Davis has written: "We will not infer that fascism in its full maturity has descended upon us. We must continue to make use of the legal channels to which we have access, which, of course, does not mean that we operate exclusively on a legal plane...
...bring some big outfits from abroad to turn this into a great tourist city." Now this is the middle class guys that are being expropriated. What I'm prepared to say is that the middle class took a stance of "let's wait and see," but from this to infer that this regime is the petit bourgeois regime, that's a big mistake. No, this regime is an American regime. What's happening in the long pull is absolutely devastating...