Word: offshoot
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That they have. A decade ago there were no more than a handful of West Coast painters of note. Today, California embraces the vast, variegated range of op, pop and minimal, not to .mention such homegrown mutations as the weird, surrealistic offshoot known as funk centered around San Francisco. Los Angeles' particular contribution is an array of bright young individualists who espouse the belief that the object is what is important, not what it represents. "We are going beyond abstraction," argues Robert Irwin, who at 40 is something of a guru to the group. Irwin's own works...
...hauled float known as the Jazzmobile swings noisily through New York City, offering two-hour concerts in front of neighborhood community centers. Now in its fourth year, the Jazzmobile features first-rate jazzmen (Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson), sometimes attracts 3,000 listeners at a time. It is an independent offshoot of the Harlem Cultural Council, and private firms, such as Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., pay most...
...whom pay national dues-the far-left S.D.S. boasts chapters on at least 250 campuses. Opposed to "imperialism" (whatever that means these days), racism and oppression, S.D.S. finds the American university guilty of all three. The organization got its start at the University of Michigan as a student offshoot of the League for Industrial Democracy, a socialist trade-unionist group. In 1962, following S.D.S.'s first national convention at Port Huron, Mich., Tom Hayden, a former editor of the Michigan Daily, drafted the 30,000-word "Port Huron statement" that was to become a basic manifesto...
...THIS connection, it can be remarked that all men--black and white, yellow and red--accept those historical paradoxes or ironies found suitable or useful for a given occasion, and reject those lacking such utility. In this respect, therefore, the Black Experience is, I daresay, little more than an offshoot of the Human Experience--no better and no worse. Perhaps I can put this point in sharper relief by reference to other features of the slave trade to the Western Hemisphere that seldom appear in the black nationalist view of this horrofying historical event. To those who take the historiography...
...beginning to think that the least well-qualified person to solve urban problems is the Horatio Alger offshoot from Ireland, Poland or Italy whose attitude toward the Negro is: We made it; let them. I hold that Paddy and Sambo are not the same people. Paddy's ancestors came here because they ran out of potatoes in Ireland, while Sambo was dragged here in chains, and kept in ignorance by Southern plantation owners...