Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Life on the Common," say the authors, "Is an experience of tedium, movement in aimless revolutions around the memorial pedestal, from which Lincoln surveys the new emancipation." There are a few rewards--easy sex, dope, and companionship. But people stay mostly because no matter how bad life is in Cambridge, It's better than what they have just left. Which is, usually, a broken home with no money about, or an alcoholic father who forced you to dress like a baby and fed you strong tranquilizers so you'd up. Or no home whatsoever...
...Films, D.W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln" (the complete version, 87 mins.: American, 1930) and Eisenstein's "The General Line" (Russian, 1927). Wed., March 29, Kirkland House Dining Hall. "Lincoln" 8 p.m.: "General Line...
...perspectives in African studies must lead to the creation of new educational processes which must become the emancipation proclamation to millions of black peoples not freed by Abraham Lincoln. These processes must help break the shackles from the souls of black peoples and offer them the sheer joy of utter and complete freedom. The processes must have the idological base of Negritude and Pan-Africanism. They must be cognizant of the entire social, historical, economic, political, psychological, and ideological factors that connote the very meaning of blackness as new humanism in Pan-African perspective. The implications of the Pan-African...
...Gropius, who continues to live in the house Gropius designed for his family in Lincoln, explains "My husband always believed that a good training in a craft, (it need only be one craft) prepares you for thinking in three-dimensional terms, which no drafting board does, or does only in a very theoretical way." "He had the feeling (that later on was corroborated by Herbert Read) that new ideas, new feelings for new developments altogether, came first to the practicing artist, not to the philosopher or scientist; they usually get the message a little later. Instinctive reaction, you know--Picasso...
...eccentric, minor and dull." In history, too, the emphasis has been changed to the study of "invisible women" whose achievements have been largely forgotten: Dorothea Dix, whose exposes revolutionized conditions in mental institutions a century ago; Sojourner Truth, a former slave and influential abolitionist who was received by Abraham Lincoln and later appointed "counselor to the freed people"; Maria Mitchell, who discovered a new comet in 1847; Belva Lockwood, activist lawyer and candidate for President on an equal-rights platform in 1884. In analyzing the bias that has ignored such figures, the women's studies courses frequently focus...