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...fact, one other seminary has already taken action, 95 percent of the faculty members of the Andover-Newton Theological School have already signed a statement identical to Dorman's. "The response here was almost instantaneous," says George W. Peck, dean of Andover-Newton. Dorman sees a widespread religious movement just starting for nuclear disarmament, and the Divinity School will be part of it, however unofficially. This seminary is no bastion of bible-belt conservatism...
February 19, 9:22 p.m.--Officers arrested Geoffrey S. Hurley of Newton for disorderly conduct and assault and battery on a police officer they apprehended him in the balcony of Memorial Hall disrupting an event. The 27-year-old man was allegedly intoxicated and pushing people and wielding a knife. Officers subdued him. but as they were escorting him downstairs, he kicked one officer in the legs and tripped the other down the start well...
...Randull started vaulting to combat boredom when he was ten years old and living in Ghana. Randall and his older brother used bamboo sticks and buried themselves over neights of four and five feet. This sybling competition soon moved from rivalry to ritual and when his family moved to Newton, Mass., Randall joined the Newton North track team to begin supervised vaulting...
...Australia and New Guinea). The sweep of the collection reminds one that at almost any time in the world's history up to now, the overwhelming majority of art made for any purpose at all was what we call primitive: that is, in the words of Douglas Newton, curator of the Met's new wing: "Primitive culture has been the major part of human experience...
...Primitive" is a bedeviling word, hard to shake. In the past few decades it has lost most of its racist overtones, but has nonetheless retained an air of condescension. Its most neutral usage, suggested by Newton, is "the art of those peoples who have remained until recent times at an early technological level, who have been oriented toward the use of tools but not machines." The key phrase is "until recent times"-without it, most European culture up to about 1600 could fairly be called primitive. Above all, the word cannot mean crude or inarticulate. Few European medieval ivory carvings...