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Jordan from 1948 to 1967. For this reason, expanded talks may be shifted to a more neutral site, where the glare of publicity will be less intense...
...hard to define to be a system. As a viable "movement," it lasted from the end of the first World War to the end of the second-a span of nearly three decades. Like its ancestor Dada, surrealism was brought to term by young refugees in the cafes of neutral Zurich during World War I, in a clamor of theatrical high jinks, concrete-poetry recitals, chance-based collages and mock rituals. Surrealism became a common ground for bourgeois intellectuals agonized by the futility of their expected social roles. But it smacks of artificiality to confine either Dada or surrealism...
...seems Harvard's policy of diversity masks its educational obligation, for the concept of diversity is only as neutral as it is fashionable to be neutral. As Bob Young points out, people are seeing blacks under every bed. Today, minorities are not only unfashionable, apparently they are politically expendable as well. --Louis E. Benjamin...
...core of Sontag's argument is that photography is not an art: it is a language, a neutral medium. Its analogue is not painting but paint. "Out of language, one can make scientific discourse, bureaucratic memoranda, love letters, grocery lists, and Balzac's Paris. Out of photography, one can make passport pictures, weather photographs, pornographic pictures, X-rays, wedding pictures and Atget's Paris...
Sontag is uneasy about the entire role of "concerned" photography. Holocaust victims, matchstick Biafran children, burnt Vietnamese-seen as products in the camera's neutral eye, she argues, these images of suffering become analgesic; they first stimulate the moral sense, then dull it by overload. There is a truth to that, but not the whole truth. No matter what one may say against the continual voyeurism of photography, the likelihood is that it played as great a role in finishing the Viet Nam War as the printed word did. (One main reason why civilians in England could tolerate...