Word: ole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week five paintings were taken down from an art exhibit in University Gallery after some discussion between the administration and the artist, Mr. Ray Kerciu, assistant professor of art at Ole Miss. The paintings had been hanging for five days before they were removed...
...Painter G. Ray Kerciu, 30, assistant professor of art at Ole Miss, the sprawling painting he called America the Beautiful expressed all the raw violence and redneck inhumanity of last September's integration crisis at the university. Kerciu had watched the riots from his office window, and for two weeks afterward found himself unable to lay brush to canvas. But he wanted to express the drama of this turning point of state history. Normally a quiet, representational landscapist, Kerciu adopted the style of Manhattan Artists Jasper Johns and Larry Rivers, who are fascinated by flags and labels. Kerciu painted...
University Provost Charles Noyes ordered America the Beautiful removed, along with five other paintings equally riotous in local color. Then an Ole Miss law student, Charles G. Blackwell, who belongs to three Citizens Councils and has an eye on a Democratic nomination for the state legislature, brought charges against Kerciu-desecration of the Confederate flag by "obscene and indescent [as the charge spelled it] words and phrases." Arrested by Oxford police, Kerciu posted a $500 bond, came out of jail to find that his associates on the traditionally timid Ole Miss faculty had rallied behind him and are planning...
Died. Tupua Tamasese Mea A Ole, 55, joint head of state (with Malietoa Tanumafili II) of Western Samoa. Polynesia's first, and so far only, independent nation, a shrewd and urbane politician, who negotiated his South Pacific island country's peaceful 1961 breakaway from New Zealand; of cancer; in Western Samoa...
...been run by its rectors. They influence the rotating executive committee of trustees to which they report. They preside over the peaceable academic senate below them. In the 1930s one of them tried to build the school's reputation with big-time football (in 1936, C.U. actually beat Ole Miss in the Orange Bowl) and piled up a huge deficit. Another allowed the engineering school to lose accreditation (since restored) in the 1950s...