Word: nevers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extreme conservative view is that support of the contemporary arts is not the business of government. Never mind that quite a few people who were not exactly radicals, from Rameses II to Louis XIV and Pope Urban VIII, thought otherwise and thus endowed the world with parts of the Egypt, the Paris and the Rome we have today. New culture is optional -- slippery stuff, ambiguous in its meanings, uncertain in its returns. Away with it! Let the corporations underwrite...
...supporting artists the taxpayers have refused to support in the marketplace." But this was exactly what the NEA was created, in 1965, to do -- and it was the wisest of decisions. Lots of admirable art does badly at first; its rewards to the patron are not immediate and may never come. Hence the need for the NEA. It is there to help the self-realization of culture that is not immediately successful...
...general once said he could live without a friend but not without an enemy. The same assertion could be made about the women's movement, which won just enough concessions in the 1960s and '70s to induce a sense of complacency. A new generation of college-educated women, having never witnessed a female Phi Beta Kappa being told to make the coffee, considered radical feminism as outdated as Gloria Steinem's aviator glasses. By the presidential campaign of 1988, George Bush could flirt with the idea of recriminalizing abortion, knowing the women's movement was not strong enough to retaliate...
When it comes to getting and staying wet, there are still, of course, plenty of purists who have no use for oversize whirlpool baths and plastic logs. "You never swam till ya swam in a quarry," declares Marilyn Woodruff, owner for the past 22 years of Clearwater Quarry near Toledo. Abandoned as a limestone mine around the turn of the century, Clearwater soaks almost two acres, roughly 30 ft. deep. At nearby Salisbury Quarry, 65 ft. at its deepest, half the swimmers are scuba divers. They come to rummage around the sunken hulks -- eight fishing trawlers, as well as buses...
...know, what men used to say about the Women's Movement--Does this mean I can never open a door for a woman again? It's almost the same thing...