Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other. "It may amuse, Mother, to try to photograph," they wrote her fondly. Little did they guess. At first Mother could hardly tell the difference between treacle and collodion, the sticky fluid used to coat her glass negatives. But she had an eye and the kind of cast-iron ego that always stands a photographer in good stead. "Few could withstand the extreme fury of her affection," Virginia Woolf wrote in the preface to the first edition in 1926 of Victorian Photographs, recalling Mrs. Cameron, who was the aunt of her mother, Mrs. Leslie Stephen...
Unfortunately, though, the "chaos underneath" only gives away a general anarchy in the conception of the film itself. This general chaos surfaces in the first few minutes of Counterpoint and rules with an iron hand for the duration of the film. Both of Brown's worlds--the order and the chaos--are presented with the same frenzied, confused montage which wreaks havoc on the plot. Even the masters of quick-cutting, whom Brown openly imitates, structure their films around sequential thought, building their tricks atop a plot that conveys at least a remote sense of plot or development. Tenuous visual...
...iron rule of color-blindness would seriously endanger much of the progress made since 1968 in the numbers of minority students in universities. Test scores of minority applicants from ghetto schools and of lower socio-economic background, cannot be expected to come out as high as those of students from suburban schools and environments which stress educational achievement, especially when the tests continue to have a strong middle-class bias in content and value...
...Harvard's long experience in this area highlights the dangers of substituting an iron rule of law for the discretion of academic authorities to make a conscious selection of qualified students from the greatest variety of cultural, social and economic backgrounds in order to improve the educational experience of the whole student body," the brief states...
...basic argument is that the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment does not imply an iron rule of "color-blindness." Although a policy which purposefully excluded minority groups constitutes "hostile" or "invidious" and unconstitutional discrimination by limiting and asserting the inferiority of minority groups, a policy that includes such groups in order to improve the education offered to all carries no such implications...