Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preliminary court ruling in July had permitted the University to continue with construction of the diesel portion of the plant, pending further court review of the DEQE ruling. Young's final decision, which followed a series of hearings over the past two weeks, reversed the preliminary ruling...
...more appropriate date for "Italian-American Day" can (and should) be found, one that commemorates one of the many truly constructive Italian-American contribuitons to the United States. Many people feel that the massacre of the Native Americans is just an ugly blot in our past, and that the current state of "the greatest country in the world" makes up for, even if it doesn't justify, our evil colonial history. And, of course, most people probably don't think of Columbus Day as anything but an excuse...
Americans should express the evils of all colonialism, and fight both modern neocolonialism and the vestiges of its past incarnations. There is ample opportunity to fight both, for example, in Africa today. That is the whole idea of the anti-apartheid movement...
...events of the past six months have not helped things. John Havlicek retired, and in so doing, stripped away the last vestiges of a classier era. Bill Walton uncovered Nixonesque medical practices in Portland and was brave enough to make them public. And in case you forgot, the Washington Bullets defeated the Seattle Supersonics with a best-forgotten cast of characters for the league championship...
...finished Gorky paintings are in the show, his drawings and preliminary studies for other compositions are examples of the mature Gorky--the abstract expressionist whom Gorky eventually discovered in himself with the help of the Chileam surrealist Matta, after years of imitating the work of his contemporaries and past masters. The study for "Calendars", recently donated to the Fogg, is a very strong work which shows Gorky in one of his finer moments...