Word: painters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement endorsed the demands of students and condemned the University's policy of "relegating blacks to the classification of 'painter's helper' in which they earn less money than 'painters' for doing the same work." They recommended that "all 'painter's helpers' be promoted immediately to 'painters 'and that 20 percent black and other minority group workers be hired at all levels at Harvard construction sites" -one of OBU's demands...
...original that he decided merely to rearrange the parts. "The figure emerged spontaneously," he says, and it reminded him of Renaissance portraits of Italian patricians. In his antic fashion, Steinberg named his creation Il Duca di Mantova, after the playboy nobleman in Rigoletto. Bernard Pfriem, a New York painter who had worked with hat blocks before, did not change the basic form of the block either. "It was a human image, after all. My idea was to retain the identity but to metamorphose it into a new image." So he added a telephone and rigged it to a recording...
...Warren defiantly turns his back on this grubby century, on what he calls this "moment of mania," and plunges back into the wilderness-America's Garden of Eden-to retell a primal myth. In a sequel of seven comparatively short poems, he takes Naturalist and Bird Painter John James Audubon as a kind of frontier Adam, sketching in his 19th century life as a drama of innocence, guilt and final redemption...
...embracing fraternity of failure, Audubon in some sense shares their guilt and their punishment. Now as reconciled to man as he has all along been to nature, Audubon goes on to his own fulfillment, to his "glory"-a favorite Warren word. Truly "Westward and fabulous," the painter's vision is shadowed only by the poet's darkly romantic hindsight on what was to follow: the Civil War and that other bugaboo of the Southern soul, industrialization...
...handling the painter's helpers issue, the University has gone through a baffling series of twists and turns. We have heard at various times that L.Gard Wiggins, administrative vice president of the University, could promote the helpers with one phone call; then that he could not without the consent of the Union; then that Harvard was willing to let a three-man panel from the black Contractors Association of Boston decide the helpers' case, apparently without the union; and now the administration has agreed to add three OBU representatives to that panel. The University seems to have been dodging...