Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...previous experience." Perhaps-but in a strictly limited way. Few people could encounter the carved ceremonial masks of the Northwest Coast Indians, the Tlingit. Kwakiutl or Tsimshian, with their exquisite shell-inlay work and flowing, knife-blade forms that so inexplicably resemble archaic Chinese bronze decoration, without feeling some instant response to the vitality of their stylistic language. Through their art runs a supreme capacity to make sensation concrete: what European artist, for instance, could develop a more concise epigram of a grizzly bear's humped, sullen power than the unknown Tlingit carver who hewed one (see cut below...
...whites in general as creatures of the fringe. American literature and film have compounded the dislocation by using non-whites, Indians in particular, as if they were human period furniture, a portable part of the dramatic donnee to be carried through time and space to serve as an instant complication in the plot of countless Western sagas. As a result, few Americans know what happened when and where, for they have Hollywood visions of John Wayne chasing Mescaleros into Canada, Geronimo dying in five states, and Crazy Horse winning the Kentucky Derby...
...high school. Tuition is $15 for ten lessons. She requires pupils to memorize the colors and emblems of every National Football League team, assigns each student a game to report on each week. Mrs. Laurini diagrams plays on a blackboard like a coach, explains subtleties and details by using instant replays that she videotapes while watching the previous week's games...
Alistair MacLean is a craftsman of a special product: the instant bestseller and "soon-to-be-made-into-a-major-motion-picture" novel...
Partially because violence is a threat instant brotherhood is hard to attain, particularly during the first months of integration. As school opened in Austin, Texas, this fall, anti-black