Word: missions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent years, the Kennedy School of Government has been sharply criticized for failing to live up to its original mission of preparing public servants. Despite the school's phenomenal growth in endowment, faculty and degree candidates during the 12-year tenure of outgoing Dean Graham T. Allison '62, many assail the school for failing to kindle that spirit of public service among its student body that it professes to be dedicated...
...mission for the left is to help America keep the promise of the principles on which it was founded. To do so, we must prove that there is something we want to build--that we have a positive and constructive agenda that includes more than tearing things down...
...Arrival at the Loeb. Ford and VanDyke bang on the door. Three cast members of "Death of Santiago" cautiously let the two in once they see the SafeStreets reflective sashes. Apparrently, the caller has decided to go it alone but the escorts search both sides of the theater anyway. Mission aborted. The escorts head back into the rain...
...suspicions some artists unsurprisingly have about strangers, is not an exercise for the dilettante. "Unofficial" artists are at the bottom of the official pole whose summit is the Academy of Arts, that august body of 77 academicians and 99 alternate members. Among them are the state propagandists, whose mission it is to turn out the unending stream of statues of Lenin (with benign and resolute features that grow more Asiatic the further east they go) for public places from Minsk to Irkutsk. Many an unofficial artist finds himself in the predicament of Nikolai Filatov, whose large canvases -- a fervent compost...
...sense that the artist has a prophetic mission in society has haunted Russian culture since the 19th century. That heavy burden crushed novelist Nikolai Gogol, who was never able to equal his masterpiece Dead Souls. It ultimately led other writers, like Leo Tolstoy, away from art and into dogmatic polemics. The weight can be felt today on the Soviet artistic community. But the essential paradox of glasnost is that when cultural leaders raise their voices, they can no longer be heard above the excited babble of an entire nation learning to speak for the first time...