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While I've always been pragmatic and ecumenical in my reaction to students like Mr. Bloodworth and Ms. Clarke with their preference for Black-solidarist cathartic activism, I persist in articulating to such Black students here at Harvard College what I believe to be a more viable mode of Black-individual and Black-group metamorphosis in our complex post-Capitalist (e.g., Hi-Tech Capitalist, Global Capitalist, etc.) era. Namely--translate your strong cathartic appetite into a strong outreach-to-Black-poor ethos; into an activist healing-hand value orientation that focuses on the manifold crises of cultural life and societal...
Anyway, I offer this "open letter" to my Government 1570 class in general and to Mr. Bloodworth and Ms. Clarke and others in their circle in particular, as both critical advice and loving advice, too. This mode of advice--critical but loving--used to be a common pattern of exchange between the "Old Heads" among Black leadership and the young...
...After a bit of inane dialogue, the host guides the guests' chat around to admitting that "what you want is what you get at McDonald's today." While the message doesn't present a problem, the means of communication do. All of the actors utilize an extreme dialect and mode of speaking that no person I know, white or black, has ever used except in jest...
...syringe sharing became the number one mode of AIDS infection in Massachusetts, surpassing male homosexual sex, according statistics from the Massachusetts Department of Health quoted in a Boston Globe article Thursday...
Poussin wanted to reconstitute antiquity in his paintings by grasping its root: energy. Always in his best work there are the signs of overflowing vitality, constrained by form's superego, the mode -- tragic, idyllic, epic, sacred. The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, 1638, is such a painting. % Poussin based it on a classical source -- Flavius Josephus' account of the sack of Jerusalem by the Emperor Titus and his army. Its obvious formal prototype is the Roman battle sarcophagus, with figures arrayed in a frieze; its pictorial roots, expressed in the nobly articulated figures of enslaved Jews and conquering centurions...