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...city stood higher on their hit list than Venice. "We repudiate the Venice of the foreigners, market of antiquarian fakers, magnet of universal snobbishness and stupidity . . . We want to prepare the birth of an industrial and military Venice. Let us fill the stinking little canals with the rubble of the tottering, infected old palaces! Let us burn the gondolas, rocking chairs for idiots." Thus Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and his friends, the futurist painters, in a manifesto from 1910. It is a delicious irony that the most important exhibition in Europe this summer (or indeed anywhere else) should be a giant...
...National Convention (a speech he today regards as far too emotional) that Mario Cuomo pierced the larger American consciousness. Already this year he has been asked to speak in nearly every state; colleges beckon him with offers of commencement addresses. Democratic fund raisers say that his name is a magnet for money. Wherever he speaks, he dazzles audiences with his verbal virtuosity and moves them with the evocation of his oft-repeated theme of family: "The sharing of benefits and burdens for the good of all." "He's the most exciting, vibrant politician in America today," says Senator Joseph Biden...
Henrichs also said that Hanfmann was "a great magnet who attracted huge numbers of students...
Professor Robert F. Bales, who retired from teaching this semester, was a member of Soc Rel and says the new department was a "great success," luring the best minds in human behavior to Cambridge. Riesman, who also served in Soc Rel, agrees it was a "national magnet." "It brought a great faculty, superb graduate students and it was very attractive to undergraduates," he says. According to Bales, Soc Rel's undergraduate concentrators had interests similar to those who currently pursue degrees in Social Studies...
With its broad conception of human behavior,Bales, a former member, says the department was a"huge success." According to another formerdepartment member, Riesman, the department was a"national magnet," attracting, "a great faculty,superb graduate students, and it was veryattractive to undergraduates...