Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White Response. One goal shared in common by all B.S.U. organizations is the end of racism on campus-by which they mean admitting more Negroes to colleges. The real issue, though, is not whether blacks should be given greater access to higher education, but whether they should have the exclusive right to say who should be admitted and what their education should be about. Faculties are unanimous in denying the black students the right to set their own standards and hire their own teachers...
...just as serious about having my paintings not mean anything as abstractionists are about having theirs mean something," says Jean Jones Jackson, a Connecticut matron who taught herself to draw during a bout with TB 15 years ago. "I can't bear anything symbolic." Jackson protests that she paints only small pictures because her technique is too poor to allow her to paint big ones. In fact, her pettiness is a positive dimension, making what might otherwise be a fairly conventional mix of Rene Magritte and Grandma Moses seem witty, bizarre and remote...
This does not mean that Brown's works are meant to represent specific works of Calder or Pollock. "I am not trying to make the listener hear a mobile or visualize a Pollock painting," Brown explains. "I was inspired by the manner, the process of their way of working...
Spotted fever is caused by an unusual microbe, halfway between viruses and bacteria. It is harbored by ticks, which live in scrub and especially around garbage dumps, and gets to man either when a tick lands directly on him for a free mean or-more commonly-when a tick nestles in a dog's fur and transfers later to his master. Either way, the tick's bite gets the microbe into the bloodstream, where it multiplies. It soon causes high fever, splitting headache, severe muscle aches and mental confusion. Many other diseases produce similar symptoms, but spotted fever...
Aside from boredom, however, I have growing sense of the political nature (as opposed to moral or educational) of the Administration and many of the Faculty. I do not mean to suggest that many Faculty members are out to get us. Some perhaps are, and many administrators may feel that their jobs would be a lot easier without us. For one thing, they seem to feel that if we weren't around, it would be a lot easier to deal with dissidents in student government, black students, Radcliffe girls, graduate students, junior faculty, and even some senior faculty...