Word: medias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face it: mass-media newscasting [April 26] is now the global version of that old game, let's you and him fight. For profit, politics or publicity, we are perpetually assaulted, kicked in the adrenal glands, frustrated and depressed vicariously by the stream of reports on rape, riot and rebellion in places we know nothing about, will never see, can do nothing for, and which consume our energies and misdirect our concerns from our real individual responsibilities for job, family and community. One man's information is indeed another man's identification with militarism, license, revolt, sadism...
...fell in love with the sculptures of Degas. Like most enthusiasts who are only familiar with his pastels or oils. I was surprised to find that he had sculpted at all. The same surprise was renewed last week at the Fogg in discovering the Degas monotypes. Both these media were exceedingly personal ones for Degas, and knowledge of them will deepen and broaden the understanding of anyone who is familiar with his epoch only through its paintings...
...plate and wiped away with rags and/or blunt and sharp instruments (dark field manner), or one in which one draws with the ink on the plate (light field manner). The paper is then run through a press with the plate. But unlike the output of other graphic media, only a few impressions at most are obtainable. Also unlike most other graphic media, the process is and appears far more spontaneous and casual, seemingly closest in nature to drawing...
...Howard, and copied successfully by blacks at Boston University and without the help of black students, whose presence in the first occupied building prevented it from being busted the first day, the Columbia demonstration would not have succeeded. But in spite of this, either because white power controls the media or just because it was the culmination of a long string of student rebellions, the Columbia demonstrations represent a watershed in the drive for student sovereignty...
FROM what their sources of information have told them, the liberal activists see SDS's recent actions as embarrassingly inept. First they thought SDS claims that Harvard's tuition was being used to preserve class structure within the University were paranoid and irrational. Second, the media told them that SDS was sabotaging Eugene McCarthy (the liberal activist candidate) in Wisconsin. Third, they saw the SDS demonstration that cost Boston University $500,000 in "bad" money us a misdirected, simply sensational protest which was neither practical nor sincere. If SDS really cared about slumlords, they asked, why did they wait until...